Post by svenman on Jul 1, 2013 11:50:03 GMT -8
Kevin Earl Taylor Breeze Block Gallery July 2013 by sven / a million pieces, on Flickr
PRESENTED IN GALLERY 1
Monument Adrift: New Work by Kevin Earl Taylor
Curated by Sven Davis
July 5 - 27, 2013
Opening reception: FRIDAY JULY 5th, 6-10pm*
*please note due to the holiday, we will be closed on July 4th.
For preview or sales inquiries, more information, images, please email Paige Prendergast:
paige@breezeblockgallery.com
Breeze Block Gallery is proud to present Monument Adrift, an all-new collection of work by San Francisco based artist Kevin Earl Taylor.
Taylor’s oil paintings demonstrate a mastery of both technical execution and conceptual dexterity. Constellations of concepts congregate amongst imagined landscapes as he explores a magnetism unto mystery within the subject matter of his work. Myths and ideologies combine within the content leaving the viewer uncertain of whether the timeless paintings depict a scene from a visionary society of the future or relics of the past.
A monument, often steadfast, exists to symbolize and materialize a moment in time, thought pattern, or someone or thing intended to be pondered.
The monuments within these paintings shroud their portrayals by masking their make and motive. At once in transit and transition, they retain the curiosity of vast sectors of a deviant wilderness, morphing as perceptions change with the uncertainty of the time and place depicted.
In Monument Adrift, Taylor observes the power possessed by homages with ever changing focus. In nature, the mundane is heralded with as much importance as with the outwardly fascinating. Symbolic forms draw crowds, and the symbiosis of rock and flesh depicted within these paintings conveys a narrative led discourse with natural and fantastical elements woven throughout the phantasmagorical subject matter.
Kevin Earl Taylor Studio by sven / a million pieces, on Flickr
About Kevin Earl Taylor
Kevin Earl Taylor was born in 1972 in Charleston, South Carolina. He now lives and works in San Francisco, California.
In 1995 he received his BFA from The Savannah College of Art and Design. His work has been exhibited and published throughout the US, as well as internationally in London, Malmo, Milan, Berlin and most recently Hamburg as part of a six month residency in 2012.
He works primarily with oil paint on wood panels and watercolour on paper and also explores time based art forms incorporating sound, video and installation. Kevin’s work has been featured in various publications, most recently in the book Milk and Honey: Contemporary Art in California alongside a collection of contemporaries working in California, compiled and edited by the late Justin Van Hoy.
Ryan Stewart Nault Breeze Block Gallery July 2013 by sven / a million pieces, on Flickr
PRESENTED IN GALLERY 2
I'm A Stranger Here Myself: New Work by Ryan Stewart Nault
Curated by Sven Davis
July 5 - 27, 2013
Opening reception: FRIDAY JULY 5th, 6-10pm*
*please note due to the holiday, we will be closed on July 4th.
For preview or sales inquiries, more information, images, please email Paige Prendergast:
paige@breezeblockgallery.com
Breeze Block Gallery is proud to debut I'm a Stranger Here Myself, the first solo exhibition from Chicago based artist Ryan Stewart Nault.
Nault deconstructs his environments to their very base forms within his compositions, capturing a harmonious mix of abstraction and reality.
His fluid brushwork shows a tremendous level of confidence and maturity in his painting that belies his young age.
As a symptom of our relationship to time and space in this contemporary moment, the role of the stranger has become ever easier to take on. In this series of work, Nault attempts to point out how familiar the stranger has become. He does this from the only point of view he possesses - that of the American stranger - a stranger in his own wild and varied land.
As with memory, these paintings are a product of time; in reference to specific moments in time, while existing in a realm divorced from time.
I'm a Stranger Here Myself is an experiment with memory. The collective memory of the American stranger.
Ryan Stewart Nault Studio by sven / a million pieces, on Flickr
About Ryan Stewart Nault
Ryan Stewart Nault was born in 1991 in Michigan. He is currently based in Chicago where he studied for his BFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He works primarily with oil on canvas and his paintings often incorporate sculptural and everyday elements, with a tonality akin to the modern American paintings of Edward Hopper. The subject matter of his work is described by the artist as harboring the effects of 'domestic comfort'. His work has been previously featured in group exhibitions in the USA and the UK. I'm a Stranger Here Myself is his debut solo exhibition. His first book, Indoor Living, was published in 2012 by Museums Press.
