"It's Not You It's Me" Exhibition
SOLOWAY
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When a subject presents itself as inspiration, the artist often asks: is this for me? Can this become mine? This exhibition considers the declaration of the individual through working with or for others, i.e. artists, employers, or more abstract experiences: those of style or memory. Each artist here presents us with their own transference of personal experience into authored object.
Caitlin Keogh creates delicate and detailed paintings that meander between Bargello needle point patterns and early Modernist paintings, in conjunction with skills she picked up working as an artist’s assistant. Keogh states, “they are a combination of every painter I've ever worked for; Cameron Martin, Lucy McKenzie, Cheyney Thompson, Wayne Gonzales, with the addition of drawing-job skills, making technical drawings of handbags, shoes, buildings, embroidery for throw-pillows, and jewelry. I think about time when I make them, and I think about lettering (repetition, steadiness) and information.”
Boru O’Brien O’Connell creates an abstract dialogue with his past reading of Malcom Lowry’s semi-autobiographical novel Under the Volcano, and questions just why is it that these specific objects are pointed out by the protagonist, a certain Geoffrey Firmin. The images Firmin notices are then reified as black and white photographic prints and are displayed alongside a blurry video of a page from the novel’s text. Why memories of these images? These photographs function as concrete facts present for close observation. His re-working of Lowry’s text is a way to over-focus on somewhat blurry memories, first read by O’Brien O’Connell 5 years ago.
Graham Collins recycles materials from past exhibitions at his job at Lower East Side’s Untitled gallery. The detritus of left behind stones and boxes, display units and ephemera, base materials once authored by exhibiting gallery artists, reappear as elements in dialogue with his own pieces. Collins re-claims these constituent parts as his own materials that are simultaneously ‘found’ and worked for. Their past value is now re-assigned and in merging with his own specific materials he creates his own visual language.
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Schedule
from July 30, 2011 to August 07, 2011
Opening Reception on 2011-07-30 from 18:00 to 20:00