Reade Bryan "REFLEX"

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Signal presents REFLEX, an exhibition of new sculptures and site-specific works by Reade Bryan.

Installed within the gallery is an otherworldly landscape of playful, organic forms constituted of raw building materials: fiberglass insulation, rubber, metal and plywood.

The large sculptures in black rubber and stacked plywood have their origins in an earlier body of work–layered, industrial sheet material cut and traced with a router to reveal geological striations, submerged material archaeologies that visibly reconstitute their formation.

The repetitively cut, stacked sheet wood remains, in curvaceous, continental shapes as much owing to the irregular weight of an eroded landmass as to the “SPLAT” of anything wet. Black rubber sheets are cinched beneath the uppermost plywood layer and mounted to a central metal anchor–a wing nut, a hexagonal bolt, a steel plate door handle. The dark rubber is most taut, creaseless, at the point of tension, and draws its energy inward. The resilience of the material, its reluctant give, animates these forms even in their stillness.

Where the sheet works may read as geological, Bryan’s manipulation of fiberglass insulation takes on a biological, more gestural capacity–cut, twisted, and anchored by the action of a drill, or bisected by wire, the persistent volume of the insulation flows outward from its anchor point. These eruptive blooms, with their soft, porous tactility and flesh-like tones, populate the exhibition like some kind of alien succulent. Here, spore-like, bridging the corner of a wall; there, compressed against gently curving aluminum, expanded like the lungs of an accordion. Several of the blooms, mounted on the floor or on the ceiling, draw a taut line of aircraft cable between them, as though the deposited forms, freely multiplying, draw their means from the air.

Reade Bryan is from Houston, Texas. He lives and works in Brooklyn.

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Schedule

from March 01, 2013 to March 31, 2013

Opening Reception on 2013-03-01 from 19:00 to 22:00

Artist(s)

Reade Bryan

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