Russell Nachman “Lenz”

LMAKgallery

poster for Russell Nachman “Lenz”
[Image: Detail view of Russell Nachman's Lenz, 2016]

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LMAKgallery presents Russell Nachman’s third solo exhibition Lenz. The exhibit takes its title and inspiration from the short story by George Büchner. Büchner’s character study of the historical figure, J. M. R. Lenz, is a depiction of madness brought on by the struggles of spiritual needs in conflict with intellectual convictions.

“The cruelty of God’s seeming indifference to human suffering is unbearable to Lenz.
Yet atheism, the intellectual alternative, shakes the very foundation of his being. He is trapped in an irresolvable conflict. Facing the void of a godless world is as impossible for him as is blind faith in a God who is capable of inflicting pain and suffering upon his creatures.”
-R. Hauser, George Büchner (NY: Twayne, 1974), p. 49

This current suite of watercolors read like “variations on a theme.” The paintings appropriate Büchner’s story and place it, like a lyric undertone, within the lexicon of Nachman’s universe. So the madness of Lenz folds into the continuous Bacchanal of spiritual degradation, booze and revelry that color Nachman’s paintings. A broken wrist, cast as a golden trophy punctuates this exhibit in triumph or resignation-or most likely in both. Nothing is forsaken nor set in stone: these are all moments in time passing ‘til the next: “the path that is, now up, now down.”

Russell Nachman (born 1966, Boulder, CO) received his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. His work is currently on view at Haugar Vestfold Kunstmuseum in Norway and he has shown throughout Europe and the US. His work is included in numerous private and public collections, and has graced tour posters for the band Swans, as well as his own band, Cocaine and Abel.

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Schedule

from March 18, 2016 to April 24, 2016

Opening Reception on 2016-03-18 from 18:00 to 21:00

Artist(s)

Russell Nachman

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