Jared Buckheister & Saul Chernick “Two Man Show”

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It sees itself seeing; it touches itself touching, it is visible and sensitive for itself… a self that is caught up in things, having a front and a back, a past and a future. - Merleau Ponty, “Eye and Mind”

Two Man Show focuses on bodies depicted and used in translating ideas and desires into the visible. In these works, the male erotic viewpoint is represented in a cerebral rather than a carnal fashion. Both artists build upon an age-old lexicon of archetypes representing virility, fertility and the desires and obsessions they engender.

Jared Buckheister’s ceramic urinals show the body kneeling, not in submission but in offering. They provide a receptacle for both the waste and aggression of the objectified other, as well as those who have been conquered and subjagated. These objects suggest a complex web of influences, drawing connections between subversive fetishes and political violence. They are vessels in the tradition of Pre-Columbian ceramics and adorned with signifiers of hyper-masculine, American power: A permanent state of identity crisis.

Saul Chernick’s images are situated in psychological space. The body is present but only in fragments arranged in tableaux for the viewer’s contemplation. The human form is represented through suggestive allusion and frank depiction. Rendered in a high contrast, hyper-crisp black and white, they are imbued with a cool sense of remove, which transports them beyond the physical into a state of platonic idealism.

Jared Buckhiester lives and works in New York. In 2012 he received an MFA in Sculpture from Bard College, and in 1999 he received his BFA with a focus in Photography from Pratt Institute. He has had solo exhibitions with Envoy Enterprises; Feature Inc.; Gallerie Du Jour, Paris; Thomas Rehbein, Cologne and Dear Future Me, Brussels. He has been included in many group exhibitions including shows with Paul Kasmin, Cheim and Read, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art in Lille, France. In 2015 Buckhiester receive the Louis Comfort Tiffany Award. He has also received grants from The Dedalus Foundaion for the Arts (2012), and the Albert K Murray Foundation (2011). Since completing his MFA he has been a resident artist at OxBow, Millay Colony, The Dedalus Foundation, and The Robert Blackburn Print Makers Workshop.

Saul Chernick, (BFA RISD, M.F.A. Rutgers University), is a visual artist and educator. He has exhibited in museums including the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, the Bronx Museum of Art, the Jewish Museum of Art, and in galleries including Max Protetch, Meulensteen, and Senior & Shopmaker. He attended Skowhegan (2000) and was the recipient of the Lower East side Printshops’ Special Editions Residency (2011) as well as the Gowanus Studio Spaces’ Printmaking Residency (2013). As an educator he has taught for and worked with a number of institutions including the public school system, The Cooper Union, Parson’s School of Design, the Museum of Modern Art, Dreamyard Project, and the Joan Mitchell Foundation

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from May 28, 2016 to June 19, 2016

Opening Reception on 2016-06-05 from 18:00 to 20:00

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