"Interzone" Exhibition

C24 Gallery

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Interzone brings together three artists whose work incorporates formal concerns established by various art historical periods, such as the Modernist grid, and imbeds within them personal pathos and autobiographical elements. Through their creative processes these artists take apart these tropes in order to visualize their own personal journeys of loss, experience and a vernacular urbanism that manifests in their paintings and sculptures.

Øystein Aasan’s paintings address memory, the function of images and the place of the viewer. His work deals with the modernist grid and its use as a system of organization for his visual language composed of found and massproduced images. At times Aasan incorporates the grid over a series of placed images, attempting to harness their power and potential to reference personal history.

Mark Dutcher’s recent paintings contain elements of Abstraction, Surrealism and Pop with the use of a lexicon of words and symbols that explore subjects such as transience, personal or ideological loss, and the commemoration of death. Often incorporating song lyrics or names of former lovers, rendered illegibly, Dutcher does not attempt to hide the blemishes and humble qualities of his paintings’ surfaces in order to emphasize their human touch. His paintings radiate with the vitality of the artists hands.

David McDonald’s sculptures show evidence of the evolution of an idea from the realm of the abstract to tangible structure. By fusing the convention of the readymade or found objects with the exploration of visceral material, his work captures a tension between order and disarray –chaos gradually rising into a solid coherent mass. Much like the ambient music that he finds influential, the changes and transformations in McDonald’s work are subtle and difficult to identify, creating a temporal alliance with the notes and tones of this musical genre.

“Bringing these artist together is like compiling a series of short stories”, states Lisa De Simone. “In fact the title references a collection of works by William S. Burroughs, as well as a song by Joy Division. My interest in their work came from witnessing a dynamic energy in their studios and the work’s ability to maintain that power and to tell a new narrative within the context of each other. I am highly attracted to the sensory sensibility of Dutcher’s paintings, and his reference to post punk music, as well as McDonald's formal progressions and extraordinary palette and the manner in which Oystein connects all of the intangible and tangible.”

[Image: David McDonald "Furyu Monji" (2009) Wood, Hydrocal, Mortar, Acrylic, 61 x 30.5 x 25 in.]

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from March 09, 2013 to April 27, 2013

Opening Reception on 2013-03-09 from 18:00 to 20:00

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