Mark Joshua Epstein “A Risky Investment for Boys on the Move”
Brian Morris Gallery
This event has ended.
It’s tiles and textiles. Geometry in cursive. It’s a spree of patterns, scrambling over top of each other and butting in line. Patterns interrupted and interrupting. Which is funny because that is, of course, precisely what patterns are not supposed to do.
It’s abstraction with a little a—as in removed, isolated from an original context. Drawn from Deco or Constructivism, from a scrap of fabric or the inside of an envelope. Transposed here in a cartoon collage. It’s a patchwork of decorative digressions.
It’s a risky investment for boys on the move. Mark Joshua Epstein has gone to Mexico. For months all we hear are rumors of a turn to watercolor.
It’s what they print on the inside of envelopes to obstruct prying eyes, a security pattern. An aestheticizing of the tucked away and unseen. Blanketing the gallery walls, it suggests an unlikely kinship with Jasper Johns’s crosshatch pattern but also an envelope torn apart and inside out.
It’s a gleeful confusion of interior and exterior. In and out of the histories of modernism. In and out of the house. The domestic and the architectural. All converging across surfaces that are casually manic, happily overcrowded.
Wrong turns and abrupt changes, disappearances and reappearances. Intricacies run cold into a studied unsteady line. They resurface. Mark Joshua Epstein is back from Mexico bearing pale colored reflections of the great murals and tiling of the capital.
-Eli Diner
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Schedule
from November 20, 2014 to December 20, 2014
Opening Reception on 2014-11-20 from 19:00 to 21:00