“All Pores Open” Exhibition
Regina Rex
[Image: Shirley Gorelick "Two Sisters" (1976) acrylic on canvas, 80 x 69 5/8 in. © The Shirley Gorelick Foundation]
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As individuals lead increasingly omnipresent, transparent lives, every detail is becoming more publicly visible. All Pores Open brings together painting, photography and sculpture by four artists that emphasize a yearning for intimate interaction amidst this alienating condition. All Pores Open articulates the paradox of finding a site of genuine human connection between artist and subject during this hyper-mediated time. Shirley Gorelick’s paintings range from dense figure-based abstractions to a painting style that is slow and studious—both physical and psychological—with a painstaking attention to realism. Her painting, Two Sisters (1976) depicts two larger-than-life nude female figures whose likeness and posturing reflect an extended moment where a sense of intimacy is reinforced as much by their obvious kinship as by the direct, sympathetic manner in which they are painted. Dit-Cilinn and David Ohlsson’s collaborative sculptures present landscapes and environments that frame actionable spaces nestled between a nostalgia for images of the past and the idealization of an unknown future. They engage notions of human contact and disembodiment directly by literally asking viewers to enter their works physically. Inviting both friends and strangers to pose in front of an 8x10 view camera, Ted Partin creates photographs that engage a focused experience between two bodies and are directly at odds with the way we consume images on screens. This is further reinforced with the inclusion of his barely perceptible photographic portraits, referred to as “dark prints” which are only discernible when viewed in-person.
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Schedule
from January 11, 2015 to February 22, 2015
Opening Reception on 2015-01-11 from 18:00 to 20:00