White Flag Projects: Saturday, 13 October 2007
White Flag Projects casually invites you to the opening reception for our next exhibitions CRAIG NORTON: 127 RACIST DRAWINGS With BARRY ANDERSON: TREEBEASTIES in the Library
THIS SATURDAY NIGHT OCTOBER 13 FROM 7-10 PM
Exhibitions continue through November 10, 2007
Craig Norton Artist Talk, Monday evening, October 29, 7 PM
CRAIG NORTON: ONE HUNDRED TWENTY SEVEN RACIST DRAWINGS
Like many self-taught artists Craig Norton makes work of remarkable directness. Unlike may self-taught artists Norton's ideas arrive channeled through his incredibly fine skills as a draftsman, made more uncanny by the fact that he has had no training of any kind and his sole drawing implements are .29 cent Bic pens. Norton renders photorealistic portraits of his subjects, pairing each of his drawn heads to abbreviated and collaged figures, resulting in the kind of fantastically disjointed images that one imagines would be difficult to maintain through too many art school critiques. Of course Norton did not endure art school or much of any school, attending no college and earning his GED instead of finishing high school. Norton's lack of formal education has not discouraged his creative pursuits however- his first sales came selling decorated flowerpots in front of nightclubs while working as a bouncer, and his current work travels regularly to various Outsider Art fairs in New York and Chicago.
As part of his deep spirituality, Norton's work focuses on issues of social justice and man's inhumanity toward man; his previous work has included large series based on the genocide in Rwanda and the Holocaust, among others. CRAIG NORTON: ONE HUNDRED TWENTY SEVEN RACIST DRAWINGS will address the American Civil Rights movement, including stark portrayals of its most horrifying and heart-rending acts: lynchings, segregationist rallies, Ku Klux Klan activities and other extreme injustices of the period. Norton will install 127 of his figures within different tableaus on the gallery's walls.
Additionally, visitors to the gallery on Wednesdays will have the opportunity to observe the artist at work. White Flag will relocate the entirety of the artists studio, bringing every single object from his workspace (furniture, materials, light fixtures, window shades) to the gallery, where Norton will be in residence continuing to create new works in the series throughout the exhibition. Norton lives and works in St. Louis, Missouri.
BARRY ANDERSON: TREEBEASTIES
While Barry Anderson is equally well known for his photography and installations, White Flag will be exhibiting his newest video project, Treebeasties (1). The single channel HD video animation is a seamlessly trippy amalgam of diverse imagery which finds the artist eschewing the narrative potential of video and instead compelling the viewer into a never-ending electrified collage of pop-culture characters arriving from and vanishing into a thicket, taking the viewer on a hypnotic associative journey.
THIS SATURDAY NIGHT OCTOBER 13 FROM 7-10 PM
Exhibitions continue through November 10, 2007
Craig Norton Artist Talk, Monday evening, October 29, 7 PM
CRAIG NORTON: ONE HUNDRED TWENTY SEVEN RACIST DRAWINGS
Like many self-taught artists Craig Norton makes work of remarkable directness. Unlike may self-taught artists Norton's ideas arrive channeled through his incredibly fine skills as a draftsman, made more uncanny by the fact that he has had no training of any kind and his sole drawing implements are .29 cent Bic pens. Norton renders photorealistic portraits of his subjects, pairing each of his drawn heads to abbreviated and collaged figures, resulting in the kind of fantastically disjointed images that one imagines would be difficult to maintain through too many art school critiques. Of course Norton did not endure art school or much of any school, attending no college and earning his GED instead of finishing high school. Norton's lack of formal education has not discouraged his creative pursuits however- his first sales came selling decorated flowerpots in front of nightclubs while working as a bouncer, and his current work travels regularly to various Outsider Art fairs in New York and Chicago.
As part of his deep spirituality, Norton's work focuses on issues of social justice and man's inhumanity toward man; his previous work has included large series based on the genocide in Rwanda and the Holocaust, among others. CRAIG NORTON: ONE HUNDRED TWENTY SEVEN RACIST DRAWINGS will address the American Civil Rights movement, including stark portrayals of its most horrifying and heart-rending acts: lynchings, segregationist rallies, Ku Klux Klan activities and other extreme injustices of the period. Norton will install 127 of his figures within different tableaus on the gallery's walls.
Additionally, visitors to the gallery on Wednesdays will have the opportunity to observe the artist at work. White Flag will relocate the entirety of the artists studio, bringing every single object from his workspace (furniture, materials, light fixtures, window shades) to the gallery, where Norton will be in residence continuing to create new works in the series throughout the exhibition. Norton lives and works in St. Louis, Missouri.
BARRY ANDERSON: TREEBEASTIES
While Barry Anderson is equally well known for his photography and installations, White Flag will be exhibiting his newest video project, Treebeasties (1). The single channel HD video animation is a seamlessly trippy amalgam of diverse imagery which finds the artist eschewing the narrative potential of video and instead compelling the viewer into a never-ending electrified collage of pop-culture characters arriving from and vanishing into a thicket, taking the viewer on a hypnotic associative journey.
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