Shawn Thornton and David Aron "Upward Streams in a Fathom-Long Body"
Mountain Fold Gallery
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Mountain Fold presents the exhibition of work by David Aron and Shawn Thornton, entitled “Upward Streams in a Fathom-Long Body”. The show consists of paintings, sculpture and installations that draw upon geometry and archetypal symbolism to consider the association and disentanglement of physical and abstract things.
David Aron’s pieces express an amorphous, transparent, and minimalist blueprint of coming undone. Using a geometric language, whose structure is akin to musical free-form, Aron’s integrated compositions present the phenomenon of arising and passing away, a cycle that reflects multi-layered verses of nature. An ovular painting, “plum”, iterates a shape that is at once architectural and figurative against a muted magenta background, while ornamental details populate the foreground. The shape appears thematically throughout Aron’s work; it intimates structural support and human gesture. This piece, as well as his other paintings and sculpture, Aron developed by improvising towards a working constellation.
Shawn Thornton began his body of work as a means of demystifying the mechanisms of illness, and in order to both comprehend and reveal the visionary current that ran through his experience of brain cancer in his pineal gland, and its effects. His paintings, which foreshadowed the discovery of a tumor at the center of his brain, are intricate webs with spatial and visual abstractions, pre-historic and pre-modern art, eastern philosophy, and computer aesthetics woven together. “Black Pyramid Meditation” connotes both a caricatured factory, wherein every person and thing has its necessary place and function, and also a chart of Yogic transcendence through visionary introspection, reverence, and a universal symbolism.
Aron and Thornton construct ephemeral designs that suggest alternately a cosmic plan, and a condition of unraveling. Vivid patterns, quotidian shapes, common symbols and figures form an
architectural pastiche that map or monumentalize the circuitous ebb and flow of natural processes.
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from March 14, 2009 to May 02, 2009
Opening Reception on 2009-03-14 from 19:00 to 22:00
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I was quite impressed by the mind-bending artwork - and the opening got a nice crowd. A few photos and impressions are now up at http://www.tomcrosshill.com.