Douglas Degges and Eric Oglander “Making Stuff Out of Things”
Wayfarers
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Art and walking have an ongoing romance in New York. From Vito Acconci following people around the city in 1969, to Christine Hill leading them around it thirty years later, right up to Elastic City’s current rendering of Art Walks as an enterprise, artists in New York have often walked the streets in the service of art. This comes as no surprise, since walking in general is such a signature part of this urban culture. According to New York Magazine, our fine city “is literally designed to force people to walk… Driving in the city is maddening, pushing us onto the sidewalks and up and down the stairs to the subways…Every city block doubles as a racewalking track, every subway station, a StairMaster. Seen this way, the whole city looks like a massive exercise machine.” And to Douglas Degges and Eric Oglander, the whole city looks like their studio:
We’ve found that the walking required to traverse New York City has opened up our shared studio space and collaboration simply by introducing us to the surprising textures, shapes, and materials of things discarded in the streets. Usually one of us will arrive to the studio with found treasures in tow. These treasures offer a jumping off point, a story or conversation to build work around. One of us will work on something until a stopping point is found and then pass it along to the other. This process of working collaboratively, of passing things back and forth, has asked us to consider, and at times adopt, even if only for a moment, the interests and concerns of another maker.
We’re happy to present making stuff out of things, paintings, sculptures, and collaborative works by Douglas Degges and Eric Oglander in the main gallery at Wayfarers.
Originally from Shreveport, Louisiana, Douglas Degges graduated with a BA from Rhodes College in 2009 and a MFA from the University of Iowa in 2012. His work has been exhibited in various group and solo exhibitions throughout the United States. Most recently his work was exhibited at Horse House in NYC, John Davis Gallery in Hudson, NY, and Wayne State University in Detroit, MI. Upcoming exhibitions include a two person show at Southfork in Memphis, TN and a group show at Whitespace in Atlanta, GA.
Eric Oglander was born into a family of artists and raised in the woods outside Nashville, TN. Wanting to focus on art, he left high school in 2005 opting for isolated studio time and travel. In the summer of 2007, he worked as an apprentice in the sculpture studio at Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Colorado. He then moved to Mexico and later to California. He now resides in Brooklyn. In addition to sculpture and drawing, he also collects found photography and found objects, which has lead to one online curatorial project called craigslist mirrors which compiles photos of mirrors from craigslist. A book of these images will be published by TBW in Oakland, CA and will be available in the fall. Eric has shown in various solo and group exhibitions around the country and most recently was included in a show at Horse House in Manhattan and a group show at Cumberland Gallery in Nashville, TN.
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from March 06, 2015 to March 22, 2015
Opening Reception on 2015-03-06 from 19:00 to 22:00