Bruno David: Friday, 19 October 2007
Opening Reception. Friday, October 19 from 6 to 9 pm
(Exhibition: October 19 – December 1, 2007)
CHRIS KAHLER: VIRAL
in the Main Gallery, featuring paintings that combine the role of the artist as a scientist and poet, soothsayer and oracle. Kahler harvests biological systems for images and patterns that describe the symbiotic synergy and infection that exist between microscopic organisms and their host. Capitalizing on a process of risk and fluidity, of plan and accident, his work explores the growth, energy, interdependence, and mortality of invented organic forms. His paintings blend and fuse colors whose flow and growth, though controlled, though yielding carefully
rendered forms graced with gestural movement, create a web of paint that is as unpredictable as it is elegant. The resulting images are skeins of networks and clusters of colonies that evoke macroscopic tissues with expressionistic nuance.
COREY ESCOTO: Global Repair Service
in the Project Room, works which are largely inspired from the collecting of United Nations memorabilia. In Global Repair Service (GRS) , one of Escoto’s goals is to simultaneously inspire and motivate. It is for these reasons that he feels that it is necessary for the art of our time to simultaneously reflect a world fractured and polarized, and reflect a world (not yet) unified under a planetary crisis common to us all.
MAYA ESCOBAR: Acciones Plásticas
in hte New Media Room, in which she has created a multi-faceted “doll”. Escobar assumed the role of designer and distributor, and even posed the actual doll itself. The dolls come in five distinct styles and are always completely isolated from their expected surroundings. With these images, Escobar developed a short series of films in which she becomes real women, whose lives are visibly defined by societal constructs. Modeled after MySpace profiles and YouTube video blogs, the films are supposed to appeal to high school aged girls, who are accustomed to the culture of self-promotion that is prevalent in such online communities. In addition, the series is very self-reflective of the artist as it looks at the varying roles that identify her as a daughter of a Guatemalan father and a Jewish mother.
ISLAND PRESS: Selected Prints
in the Print Room.
(Exhibition: October 19 – December 1, 2007)
CHRIS KAHLER: VIRAL
in the Main Gallery, featuring paintings that combine the role of the artist as a scientist and poet, soothsayer and oracle. Kahler harvests biological systems for images and patterns that describe the symbiotic synergy and infection that exist between microscopic organisms and their host. Capitalizing on a process of risk and fluidity, of plan and accident, his work explores the growth, energy, interdependence, and mortality of invented organic forms. His paintings blend and fuse colors whose flow and growth, though controlled, though yielding carefully
rendered forms graced with gestural movement, create a web of paint that is as unpredictable as it is elegant. The resulting images are skeins of networks and clusters of colonies that evoke macroscopic tissues with expressionistic nuance.
COREY ESCOTO: Global Repair Service
in the Project Room, works which are largely inspired from the collecting of United Nations memorabilia. In Global Repair Service (GRS) , one of Escoto’s goals is to simultaneously inspire and motivate. It is for these reasons that he feels that it is necessary for the art of our time to simultaneously reflect a world fractured and polarized, and reflect a world (not yet) unified under a planetary crisis common to us all.
MAYA ESCOBAR: Acciones Plásticas
in hte New Media Room, in which she has created a multi-faceted “doll”. Escobar assumed the role of designer and distributor, and even posed the actual doll itself. The dolls come in five distinct styles and are always completely isolated from their expected surroundings. With these images, Escobar developed a short series of films in which she becomes real women, whose lives are visibly defined by societal constructs. Modeled after MySpace profiles and YouTube video blogs, the films are supposed to appeal to high school aged girls, who are accustomed to the culture of self-promotion that is prevalent in such online communities. In addition, the series is very self-reflective of the artist as it looks at the varying roles that identify her as a daughter of a Guatemalan father and a Jewish mother.
ISLAND PRESS: Selected Prints
in the Print Room.
Bruno David Gallery
3721 Washington Boulevard
St. Louis, MO 63108-3611
314-531-3030 or info@brunodavidgallery.com
www.brunodavidgallery.com
3721 Washington Boulevard
St. Louis, MO 63108-3611
314-531-3030 or info@brunodavidgallery.com
www.brunodavidgallery.com
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