“Gatherings” Exhibition
Fergus McCaffrey (514 W 26th St.)
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Fergus McCaffrey presents Gatherings, a group exhibition of work in various media by seven artists.
This exhibition includes James Case-Leal, Brendan Earley, Brian Fridge, Kathleen Jacobs, William Lamson, Nobuo Sekine and Kasper Sonne, who all, in some way, engage with mercurial dividing lines. Whether through formal, material, or conceptual means, the works on view reveal related artistic practices and overlapping concerns with aspects of dual states.
In the Beiträge zur Philosophie, Martin Heidegger discusses a notion he describes as Das Geviert (The Fourfold), or a place of gathering between Earth, Sky, Man, and the Divine. This understanding of such a Fourfold is our starting point. Just as a horizon line separates the Earth from the Sky, and the Divine is ostensibly free of the problems of the Human condition, these seeming dualities, when combined, create a type of interstitial place that allows for a “gathering,” a meeting place where understanding can begin to unfold.
While some of the works in the exhibition bear formal similarities, others tend to have more conceptual relationships. Traces of imagined ethereality, naturally occurring crystalline structures, coated rocks, and imprinted patterns emerge on canvas, glass, and film. It is particularly within this gathering that the dualities embedded in these works, such as density/light, matter/space, natural/manmade, become vividly apparent. Frequently these mysterious images and objects offer glimpses into dark matter, suggestive of the origins of things.
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Schedule
from June 25, 2015 to July 31, 2015
Opening Reception on 2015-06-25 from 18:00 to 20:00