David Humphrey and Jennifer Coates “Plush Onus”

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This exhibition consists of a thirty-five minute video commissioned by the Garth Newel Music Center to accompany a live performance of Terry Riley’s piece “In C”, as well as a selection of collaborative paintings by Jennifer Coates and David Humphrey. In addition the artists will present two works apiece by their own hand.

Pillaging happens when we touch another person’s painting. If you are brave, you might allow someone access to your pictorial attitudes and then sit back in horror as they wield their brush with mal-intentions, slurring your ideas, coarsening your shapes, mutating your figures into dipshits, where once they were carriers of Romance and Ideology. In this annexed state, your paintings submit to bruising. Your pride is salted like a wound. It is in this place of territorial tangling that we try to have some fun and act like we don’t mind: in honor of better paintings: in honor of terseness, of fecundity, of gingerly twisted muck-ups. We don’t mind being soiled by the other, because we know “this is how it is” and “it is what it is” and “I had to.”

Hands stay clean in film but software smears collaborators onto each other by means of commands, sliders and numbers plugged wantonly into little boxes. The camera punctures and cuts the sensorium so that Terry Riley’s music can bring its diatonic balm and sutures.

-Jennifer Coates / David Humphrey

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Schedule

from April 25, 2015 to May 24, 2015

Opening Reception on 2015-04-25 from 19:00 to 22:00

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