N.C. Winters “Overgrowth”

Last Rites Gallery

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Last Rites Gallery presents “Overgrowth”, new work by N.C. Winters, in what will be his first solo show at the gallery. “Overgrowth” will include 31 new works of art made up of 26 paintings and 5 sculptures that represent the various moods and mental states of the artist as seen through the unstoppable force of nature.

Winters is a composer of visual form. Elements of hue, medium, dimension, and subject all come together to shape a chromatic symphony that consumes the viewer in a sensory feast. Flora, fauna, fungi and othernatural botany run their course over human forms. Each painting suggests a different emotion or expression as well as varying phases of the reclamation of landscape.

Winters describes “Overgrowth”:
Each piece embodies a state of mental overrun, depicted in the form of nature, and it’s inevitable reclamation of everything it comes into contact with. Figures are shrouded in fungi, wrapped in lichen, each being overtaken by natural forces, just as our thoughts, anxieties and fears have the tendency to slowly consume our lives.

The human mind can spiral out of control and lose itself in the pandemonium of its own thoughts and emotions. Like an unattended garden being engulfed lawlessly by weeds and growths, structure and order are usurped for chaos and anarchy. One’s ability to overthink, overanalyze and seek out perfection can become an endless path of twists and turns making it even more complicated to return to one’s original state.

“Overgrowth” is Winters’ most ambitious series to date. Not only has Winters ventured onto a very personal path with his theme, he handcrafted every float frame, incorporating techniques of collage, sculpture and paint, that further enrich the natural overgrowth of his subjects. The exhibition itself is displayed in a sprawling and rambling river of scale and color, reminiscent of his own thoughts and the chaos of the natural world.

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Schedule

from November 22, 2014 to December 27, 2014

Opening Reception on 2014-11-22 from 19:00 to 23:00

Artist(s)

N.C. Winters

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