| An exhibition
that explores the current state of space
and how it is depicted pictorially in painting.
Some artists push the limits of the flat-bed
picture plane with elements that come off
the wall onto the floor. Others reflect
concerns of pop-culture advertising in forms
of graphic design and other forms of 'picture
making.' Artists include Ed Blackburn,
Robert Flowers, Lily Hanson, John Ryan Moore,
Tom Orr, Cam Schoepp, Raychael Stine, and
Karl Umlauf. Curated by artist
and Associate Professor John Pomara, recent
Dallas Center for Contemporary Art Legend
Award winner, and Eugene Binder. The exhibition
will be held in conjunction with the Eugene
Binder Gallery in Marfa, where it will be
on display in October.
"As a concept often dependent on context,
the transmutable nature of space is almost
impossible to sum up in a definition. In
a general sense, space is the receptacle
of all things. In the visual arts such as
painting, photography, sculpture, and design,
images and forms are organized in space,
in two or three dimensions. Space itself
is an ever-expansive entity in a universal,
galactic sense. Our own experience of the
immediate environment influences our concept
and point of view. Artists throughout history
have visually recorded these views with
working models to depict the space of their
times. From Renaissance forms of linear
perspective to the flat space of Modernism,
we can trace the ebbs and flows of spatial
history along with the concepts and thinking
behind them. Currently we live in a world
of global growth and rising urbanization.
With the ever–increasing spread of
sprawl in major metropolises, we feel the
need for and importance of space. With the
rise of technology and electronic interconnectivedness,
we are beginning to witness the influence
of digital and virtual space in the realm
of the more traditional bounds of painting..."
– John Pomara
Read
the rest of the exhibition brochure Here!
for essays by Eugene Binder and John
Pomara including more images from the artists.
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