Friday, March 14, 2014 at 8:00 p.m.
Opening Friday, March 14, 8 to 11 p.m.
Artists' talks Friday, March 14, 8 p.m.
Exhibition continues through May 2
Across media including drawing, painting, sculpture, video, and performance, the work of Kyle Butler addresses multiple ideas—parallels between the built environment and human behavior with that sphere; the interplay of competing and cooperating systems and the limitations of those systems; fluidity in the face of bureaucracy; and ordered conduct as a remedy to the ambiguity of socialization. Together, these themes share a desire for persistence amid the quiet roar of pathos that often defines our lives and world. To persist despite the siren call of resignation so often heard or sensed. Appropriately, in discussing the work in his new exhibition, Butler refers to these themes as "more mantra than hypothesis," guiding lights to quietly but emphatically resist rising tides of conformity. READ MORE…
Behind the ongoing gif work of Chantal Rousseau resides a drawing and painting practice. Electronically realized, her gifs are clearly hand-rendered, rather than cobbled together from other more technological means. It might seem like a subtle distinction but less so when one considers the work within the broad terrain of other electronically-based aphorisms such as emoticons, memes, and screen savers. The pencil and ink drawings that create the source imagery for the work create their own iconoclastic space, a quixotic atmosphere that makes it much more curious and indeterminate to wonder why that skull is shooting lightning bolts from its eyes or why that bikini-clad gal is fondling and squeezing that fish. READ MORE…