Adam Henry “Handshakes and Networks”
247365
This event has ended.
My eyes are in my eyes –Aram Saroyan
energy
Over time I have come to think of a painting as a battery. It holds energy and ideas.
These ideas and energies are accessed by looking, by seeing, and by engaging with
the painting. I call this handshaking. I did not invent the term, but I like what it signifies.
Besides the most obvious human connection, handshaking is also used to explain the
engagement when a personal computer connects to a server or network. The terms of
engagement for painting are contextual. They include the gallery space, the light, the
weather, the city, our mood; all other art works in our memory.
color
Color is an integer—it measures time and space; it is an alphabet; it is spatial; it is both
the physical and visual representation of incremental change. When we talk of color we
don’t speak of the color itself, rather we speak of our experience of it. This makes color
special in its ultimate subjectivity.
coordinates
I created three paintings of a rotating theoretical color diagram. These paintings act as
X, Y, and Z coordinates. Each individual painting will be given away at the end of the
exhibition under the contingency that each painting is in turn given away to another
participant after six months. This will on indefinitely. The paintings’ provenance and
locations will be logged and displayed on a website devoted to their history. These
paintings are not commodifiable and their value is in the network of experience.
Adam Henry (b. Pueblo, CO) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He received his MFA
from the Yale School of Art and a double major BFA in Art and Art History from the
University of New Mexico. His most recent solo exhibition was at Meessen De Clercq
Gallery (Brussels, Belgium) in 2015. Recent group exhibitions include David Petersen
Gallery (Minneapolis) Villa Merkel (Esslingen, Germany), Kansas Gallery (New York),
Marianne Boesky Gallery (New York), Lucien Terras Gallery (New York), and Stefan
Lundgren Gallery (Palma de Mallorca, Spain). Meessen De Clercq recently published a
monograph focusing on the last five years of Henry’s work.
Media
Schedule
from September 09, 2016 to October 09, 2016