Shea Hembrey “MultiVerses”
Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery
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MultiVerses is a solo exhibition by Shea Hembrey presented as a group show. Particular to Hembrey’s style, he has created five fictional artists: Artemesia Adebayo, Pawnee Calhoun, Harvey Lee, Elgin Rivers, and Phyllia Stanhope who imagine the cosmos through paintings, sculpture, models, and other multi-media pieces.
Science and nature remain prominent themes in Hembrey’s work. As he demonstrated in his first solo show at Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, Dark Matters, 2012, Hembrey questions what is real and the true structure of the universe. He provokes viewers to question what they are seeing and frequently uses trompe-l’oeil techniques in his series. While the artist’s work is rooted in science, the lyrical narrative of five fictional artists defines this exhibition.
Hembrey spent the past year living multiples lives with different studios and routines. He created the work in MultiVerses while at artist residencies in Wyoming, California, and New York as well as on his farm in Arkansas. With each new studio, he developed a new series of work.
In a climate where many artists provide concepts but unnamed others create the work for them, MultiVerses reverses that model. Hembrey, himself, is not the focus of his practice, but he, alone, is responsible for care-filled craftsmanship to imbue heart and spirit into each object. Ultimately, he is interested in contemporary culture focusing less on self and more on understanding our place in the cosmos.
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Schedule
from October 30, 2014 to December 13, 2014
Opening Reception on 2014-10-30 from 18:00 to 20:00