Carlos Vega "In Plain Sight"

Jack Shainman Gallery

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Jack Shainman Gallery presents In Plain Sight, a solo exhibition of new work by Carlos Vega. In this body, Vega explores his inability to identify and answer social and spiritual questions. He formulates his paradoxes without closure.

Using lead, collected objects, oil paint, stamps and printed material, Vega maps out a surreal and wondrous reality where social and metaphysical spaces are intertwined. Vega has adopted lead as a physical and conceptual support, playing with its malleable and mercurial nature. With each punctuation, the lead grows and swells and with every marking, the surface takes on a newly reflective position.

In Worn Out, Vega etches into the lead tantric-like reverberations of agitated water. Inlaid objects, such as shards of ceramic and smooth pebbles, convene. These pieces, discarded and forgotten, have undergone and continue to exhibit the passage of time. In The Oldest One Vega gives second life to used stamps, as an integrated collage element. Vega builds these stamps into a tree, a motif heavy with associations ranging from genealogy to metaphors of aging and growth, resulting in a surprisingly positive portrait of our world.

In more narrative works such as Nebula, Vega addresses moments where worlds collide. A captive audience remains oblivious to an explosion of energy over their heads. Vega has become interested in the failed ability to acknowledge the ubiquitous nature in which desire and beauty operates. Through this, Vega addresses and bridges worlds, both known and unseen.

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Schedule

from January 06, 2011 to February 05, 2011

Opening Reception on 2011-01-06 from 18:00 to 20:00

Artist(s)

Carlos Vega

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