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Further Group Exhibition @ Joshua Liner (1/09/10), by JoshuaLinerGallery on Jan 5, 2010 0:00:29 GMT 1, Our first shows of 2010 include a new group exhibit titled 'Further.' The Further show coincides with the book release by the same name from this group of seven artists:
Damon Soule, David Choong Lee, Mars-1, Nome Edonna, Oliver Vernon, Robert Hardgrave, Tomokazu Matsuyama.
Sample images and press release attached. Please let us know if you would like to receive the preview for this show.
Joshua Liner Gallery is pleased to present Further, a group exhibition featuring works by artists Damon Soule, David Choong Lee, MARS-1, Nome Edonna, Oliver Vernon, Robert Hardgrave, and Tomokazu Matsuyama. The exhibition coincides with the release of Further, a new book that brings together the seven artists and their varied takes on contemporary abstraction, mysticism, futurism, and surrealism.
Damon Soule, a New York, New York-based painter, depicts fantastic realms composed of geometrically abstract environments. Resembling screen grabs from a video game, these scenes explode with pattern and manipulated perspective, often resolving around a central image of an explosion or implosion, such as in the exhibitionโs ink-and-acrylic-on-paper work Space Positive.
By contrast, David Choong Lee, a Korean-born San Francisco-based artist, deploys the portrait within a larger field of graphic patterns and contemporary mark-making. In paintings, painted cigar boxes, or as part of stacked installations, Lee's portraits leap out from busy agglomerations of logos and street signs. In the exhibition, Leeโs Red Cloud brings these elements together onto a tall, painted wooden column.
In his painting practice, the San Francisco-based MARS-1 (aka Mario Martinez) visualizes otherworldly existence through highly developed, multilayered landscapes. His works include elements of mysticism, urban-Gothic, and sci-fi abstraction, resolving into quasi-organic forms with a fuzzy-logic aesthetic. Also of San Francisco, painter and mixed-media artist Nome Edonna explores contemporary issues through an updated form of surrealism. In his fantastical still-lifes, medical and technological advances are recontextualized or problematized with shades of classic Dada.
The Brooklyn-based Oliver Vernon depicts his own highly idiosyncratic โBig Bangโ theory in painted works on paper, canvas, and wood. In the artistโs colorful vision of the cosmos, nature and culture collide. Robert Hardgrave of Seattle also works in acrylic and ink on canvas, creating phantasmagoric figures built up from basic, expressive mark-making and complex shapes. Lastly, the work of painter Tomokazu Matsuyama will also be featured in Further. Based in New York, the Japanese-born artist has developed a lively, colorful practice where ancient tales, mythology, and contemporary visual design intermingle in works of figurative abstraction, such as the acrylicon-canvas Runnin' Further Deep Study.
Tomokazu Matsuyama Runnin' Further Deep Study #3 Acrylic on canvas 2009 36 x 48 in.
David Choong Lee Red Cloud Acrylic, latex, and oil on wooden box 2009 70 x 13 x 7 in.
Damon Soule Space Positive Ink and acrylic on paper 2009 24 x 18 in.
Our first shows of 2010 include a new group exhibit titled 'Further.' The Further show coincides with the book release by the same name from this group of seven artists: Damon Soule, David Choong Lee, Mars-1, Nome Edonna, Oliver Vernon, Robert Hardgrave, Tomokazu Matsuyama. Sample images and press release attached. Please let us know if you would like to receive the preview for this show. Joshua Liner Gallery is pleased to present Further, a group exhibition featuring works by artists Damon Soule, David Choong Lee, MARS-1, Nome Edonna, Oliver Vernon, Robert Hardgrave, and Tomokazu Matsuyama. The exhibition coincides with the release of Further, a new book that brings together the seven artists and their varied takes on contemporary abstraction, mysticism, futurism, and surrealism. Damon Soule, a New York, New York-based painter, depicts fantastic realms composed of geometrically abstract environments. Resembling screen grabs from a video game, these scenes explode with pattern and manipulated perspective, often resolving around a central image of an explosion or implosion, such as in the exhibitionโs ink-and-acrylic-on-paper work Space Positive. By contrast, David Choong Lee, a Korean-born San Francisco-based artist, deploys the portrait within a larger field of graphic patterns and contemporary mark-making. In paintings, painted cigar boxes, or as part of stacked installations, Lee's portraits leap out from busy agglomerations of logos and street signs. In the exhibition, Leeโs Red Cloud brings these elements together onto a tall, painted wooden column. In his painting practice, the San Francisco-based MARS-1 (aka Mario Martinez) visualizes otherworldly existence through highly developed, multilayered landscapes. His works include elements of mysticism, urban-Gothic, and sci-fi abstraction, resolving into quasi-organic forms with a fuzzy-logic aesthetic. Also of San Francisco, painter and mixed-media artist Nome Edonna explores contemporary issues through an updated form of surrealism. In his fantastical still-lifes, medical and technological advances are recontextualized or problematized with shades of classic Dada. The Brooklyn-based Oliver Vernon depicts his own highly idiosyncratic โBig Bangโ theory in painted works on paper, canvas, and wood. In the artistโs colorful vision of the cosmos, nature and culture collide. Robert Hardgrave of Seattle also works in acrylic and ink on canvas, creating phantasmagoric figures built up from basic, expressive mark-making and complex shapes. Lastly, the work of painter Tomokazu Matsuyama will also be featured in Further. Based in New York, the Japanese-born artist has developed a lively, colorful practice where ancient tales, mythology, and contemporary visual design intermingle in works of figurative abstraction, such as the acrylicon-canvas Runnin' Further Deep Study. Tomokazu Matsuyama Runnin' Further Deep Study #3 Acrylic on canvas 2009 36 x 48 in. David Choong Lee Red Cloud Acrylic, latex, and oil on wooden box 2009 70 x 13 x 7 in. Damon Soule Space Positive Ink and acrylic on paper 2009 24 x 18 in.
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