Rusty Shackleford “Repeater”
Cindy Rucker Gallery
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Cindy Rucker Gallery presents Repeater, an exhibition of new work by Rusty Shackleford. The exhibition will feature Shackleford’s Lambda prints and sculptural arrangements, which strike a surprising equilibrium between readymade and invention. This is his first solo exhibition in New York.
Rusty Shackleford creates elusive artworks. His works investigate the relationship
between image and form, engaging vintage printed matter to extrude its inherent
qualities, of color, context, and nostalgia. As both a painter and a collage artist, he utilizes found imagery and objects to create pieces that have both tension and
cohesiveness. By applying swaths of paint to found magazine pages, either directly or digitally, he sets up an interaction that obscures the image. He then enlarges the piece, magnifying the physicality of the paint and grain of the found material. Shackleford’s smudged compositions aren’t created by the artist but rather by the scanner lid. He’s unsure of what he has until the scanned image appears on his screen. He is uninterested in creating staged abstract paintings; moreover he’s interested in capturing the quickness of happenstance. With this censorship, he commands his viewer to make leaps across the picture plane to explain the image all the while having to contend with the very real, larger than life abstract painting in their way.
His sculptural arrangements function similarly to his prints. Using aspects of collage, these arrangements create relationships between images and objects. Color and form, executed boldly in a minimal, Modernist style, integrate smoothly with the colors and forms in their surroundings.
Rusty Shackleford, born 1978, in Montgomery, Alabama, received his MFA from University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 2004 and has since been shown throughout the Midwest and Berlin, Germany. Shackleford’s work has been written about in Modern Painters, Beautiful Decay, Flavorpill, and ArtFCity in addition to others. He has been a resident at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the Vermont Studio Center and Harold Arts. He has also been featured at MDW Art Fair with Hinge Gallery and Untitled Miami with Cindy Rucker Gallery.
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Schedule
from February 01, 2014 to March 09, 2014
Opening Reception on 2014-02-01 from 18:00 to 20:00