"The Study" Exhibition
Regina Rex
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From muse to museological, the life of an artistic object suggests passage towards resolution, clarity, and later category, thereby demystifying the creative impulse. Michael Byron and Stacy Fisher’s objects of contemplation complicate this notion, resist easy definition, and draw power from being nearly nameable. Fisher layers paint to mask forms sculpted out of hydrocal, rendering what once might have been identifiable objects into associative ones. By placing objects that recall tools or utensils on provisionally made pedestals, platforms, and columns, her sculptures become rudimentary monuments to the abstracted everyday. Byron’s practice is manifold, allowing for both representation and abstraction in painting. Selected on the basis of the power of the subject matter, his Grisaille series renders black and white photographs of modernist sculptures and anthropological icons seemingly from the archives and inventories of a museum. Byron employs a geometric framing device in each composition that isolates intense passages of pigment, while also representing means of display. Both artists use withholding and distancing strategies through simulated and actual layers, creating theatrical tableaus for historically and psychologically charged replicas, reprints, and artifacts.
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Schedule
from October 20, 2012 to November 25, 2012
Opening Reception on 2012-10-20 from 19:00 to 22:00