Bruno David Gallery: Friday, 12 April 2019
JUDY CHILD Inner Mappings
TERRY CONRAD Biomarkers
Opening Reception Friday, April 12. 5-8 pm
April 12 – May 11, 2019
In the new series Inner Mappings, Judy Child continues to explore the materiality and texture of paint as it is poured and manipulated onto canvas to create layered and fractured surfaces.
Themes of duality are featured in this work. Choreographic, performative application at the artist’s hand exists alongside results of natural process. Emerging color adds to the narrative, suggestive of immersive sources, barely contained.
In Biomarkers, Terry Conrad views the printmaking process as a living organism, in which process and result are one entity. Akin to scar tissue or memory perception, constant movement and evolution make for an ongoing change in creation. As transformation plays both a physical and theoretical role, Conrad focuses on contrasts: control and chance, waste and decoration, and the use of finite and recycled materials. Conrad himself manufactures a press, a highly sculptural construct made from a growing collection of found objects, scraps and raw materials in piles and tiers, serving as strata themselves, and the resulting images, impressions created over the course of several days, are created through the oxidation of metals and hand made inks onto the paper, which lies underneath the press itself. The results are meditative images that are suggestive of rocks and minerals, also formed over time and under pressure. Ecological, architectural and natural elements become primary themes. Invisible motion, transitory and spontaneous action converge in a singular method.
Public Hours Tuesday through Friday Noon – 6:00 pm, Saturday 11 am – 4 pm and open by appointment
TERRY CONRAD Biomarkers
Opening Reception Friday, April 12. 5-8 pm
April 12 – May 11, 2019
In the new series Inner Mappings, Judy Child continues to explore the materiality and texture of paint as it is poured and manipulated onto canvas to create layered and fractured surfaces.
Themes of duality are featured in this work. Choreographic, performative application at the artist’s hand exists alongside results of natural process. Emerging color adds to the narrative, suggestive of immersive sources, barely contained.
In Biomarkers, Terry Conrad views the printmaking process as a living organism, in which process and result are one entity. Akin to scar tissue or memory perception, constant movement and evolution make for an ongoing change in creation. As transformation plays both a physical and theoretical role, Conrad focuses on contrasts: control and chance, waste and decoration, and the use of finite and recycled materials. Conrad himself manufactures a press, a highly sculptural construct made from a growing collection of found objects, scraps and raw materials in piles and tiers, serving as strata themselves, and the resulting images, impressions created over the course of several days, are created through the oxidation of metals and hand made inks onto the paper, which lies underneath the press itself. The results are meditative images that are suggestive of rocks and minerals, also formed over time and under pressure. Ecological, architectural and natural elements become primary themes. Invisible motion, transitory and spontaneous action converge in a singular method.
Public Hours Tuesday through Friday Noon – 6:00 pm, Saturday 11 am – 4 pm and open by appointment
Bruno David Gallery
7513 Forsyth Boulevard
Saint Louis, MO 63105
314.696.2377
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