Cheyney Thompson “Birdwings and Chambered Shells”
Andrew Kreps Gallery
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The Andrew Kreps Gallery presents Cheyney Thompson’s sixth solo exhibition at the gallery entitled Birdwings and Chambered Shells. The show includes paintings and a set of drawings, all with new optimized titles. Thompson’s latest series of works continue his investigation of the technology, production and distribution of painting. The works on view are based on the random walk algorithm, a formalization of Brownian motion that is used in financial instruments to model market behavior.
Combining models of standardization, in the use of Munsell’s color system, with models of dynamic processes, in the use of random walks, the resulting works attempt to trace a line between painting’s twin imperatives of capture and exposure.
The show takes its title from Don DeLillo’s novel Cosmopolis, from hedge fund manager’s Eric Packer’s hyperbolic ode to the Efficient Market Hypothesis, in which he claims to recognize the “heave of the biosphere” in the streams of numbers and charts of currency indexes.
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Schedule
from January 22, 2015 to February 21, 2015
Opening Reception on 2015-01-22 from 18:00 to 20:00