STATIC IN
WARM PLACES
APRIL 5 - 17, 2023 | MASON GROSS GALLERIES | NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ
/ˈstæt̬.ɪk/ noun crackling or hissing noises on a telephone, radio, or other telecommunications system.
adjective concerned with bodies at rest or forces in equilibrium.
These paintings were made over the course of three months and they are generally about biological failure. Absurdity and freedom and fear and caretaking and mourning. How to process the physical experience like a machine and how to process it like an emotional being. And then: Processing of information --> material process.
THE TERMS OF
THE AGREEMENT
2023
Shower curtain, digital print, drop cloth, and oil on canvas with steel handlebars
48 X 36 in
CONTINUOUS MONITOR AND BENIGN GROWTH
2023
Cardboard, drop cloth, catalog paper, digital print, acrylic, and oil on canvas
48 X 36 X 16 in
HASEROT
2023
Hair extensions, acrylic, copper pipe, and sticker on drop cloth
86 X 36 in
SWEET, YESTERDAY
2023
Oil, glassine paper, acrylic, and plastic
48 X 36 in
TRANSMITTER
2023
Pine with wood epoxy and mending plates, acrylic, cardboard, fuel hose, steel handlebars, television, steel table, cables, digital document, two audio channels
52 X 96 in
Visitors are invited to listen to two recitations of texts playing simultaneously via a pair of headphones and transcribe what they hear. Their transcriptions are fed into the television and gradually accumulate into a 4,513 word document over the course of the exhibition.
