27 January - 10 March

 

JOHN ANDREWS
First Contact

  

Iowa-based artist John Andrews makes pigmented beeswax
paintings on aluminum, which explore repetition and the accu-
mulation of a visual motif. Forms and techniques developed for
technological or commercial purposes are deliberately employed
in an expressive context. Andrews' new paintings involve the use
of the raster (ben-day dot) as an ordered repetition and as a
referent to reproductive printing and mediated experience. The
raster pattern hovers on the surface of the works, while under-
lying layers reveal opposing handmade pinpricks and subtle color
variations.

The work invites simultaneous readings, as traditional monochrome
painting and autonomous objects of aesthetic contemplation, and as
a critique of the former, questioning the possibility of an immanent
(i.e. direct, immediate, and totalizing) experience, and questioning
the nature of originality, particularly as it relates to singularity.
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John Andrews, 00-23, 2000
pigment & wax on aluminum, 26.25" x 26.25"
 

WES MILLS
Drawings

Montana-based Wes Mills' new drawings are like complete thoughts
that arrive spontaneously and unexpectedly, not as resolutions of an
idea, but rather as clear, direct, and whole in and of themselves. Mills
finds materials, like ideas, to be distracting. Hence he's pared down
his medium to essentially paper and graphite, with occasional use of
pigment or ink. His small, spare drawings involve a minimum of form
as well. Simple, isolated shapes or lines float on sandalwood-colored
paper. The drawing becomes almost a foil to the neutral ground, as
though Mills were trying to give shape and color to the space of a room,
or to the quality of the mind in meditation.


 

My Second Thought, 2000
ink, collage & cuts on paper
8.25 x 8.25 inches
RUSSELL CROTTY
Star Cluster Drawings

 

 

Los Angeles-based artist Russell Crotty makes obsessive ink drawings
of nighttime skies based upon his own astronomical observations. Merging
two and three dimensions, he mounts the drawings onto large globes,
thus inverting our notions of planet and sky. We become boundless ob-
servers of a contained universe. Crotty also combines the drawings into
giant books, the scale of which again manipulates our sense of place in
the cosmos. Turning the colossal pages, our self-perception diminishes,
and human history dissolves in the vast narrative of the stars.

 


M10 Globular Cluster in Ophiuchus,2000
ink & graphite on paper, 48" x 48"