David J. Merritt Exhibition
Kansas
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KANSAS presents the New York solo debut of David J. Merritt.
From the first smear to our most monumental technological feats as a species, humans have always mediated knowledge and understanding through representation, digesting experiences of the physical world into expressions of information.
We create tools to reflect, amplify and abstract hidden waves in nature. Telescopic lenses detect faint afterglows of deep time; remotely controlled instruments on distant rocks sift and rely information in order to gain insight beyond sight - data is processed, compressed and narrowed in order to accommodate the limited band of perception that our physical-flesh-systems are capable of absorbing. This assimilation creates fissures and gaps that must be reconstituted though interpretation.
The disconnect also extends inwardly. We have no way of directly accessing the inner world of vessels and canals that compose our core. We must create an inverse set of tools for investigating the viscera. We have very little understanding and even less control over the perpetual motion of these churning inner mechanics. Our conscious-selves are merely along for the ride. Like parasites, we move through time as if riding on ancient asteroids floating along a predefined trajectory.
We are abstractions swimming through a concrete haze; constantly excavating, constantly sifting.
- David J. Merritt, 2013
For his first solo exhibition with KANSAS, Merritt will present new work from his series of gypsum cement tablets, Templates for a Machine Made From Earth, along with sound, video and objects made of wax, aluminium and magnesium. Merritt will also collaborate with a city utility locator to demarcate various lines of flow throughout the gallery space.
David J. Merritt (b. 1979, New Jersey) holds an MFA in Studio Art from New York University Steinhardt, 2011 and a BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2004. Currently he lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
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Schedule
from April 06, 2013 to May 12, 2013
Opening Reception on 2013-04-06 from 18:00 to 20:00