Cole Pierce: In the Mist of a Great Fall
@ Oliva Gallery
3816 W Armitage Ave, Chicago IL. 60647
Opening Saturday, September 16th, from 1PM - 4PM
On view through Saturday, October 7th
The Niagara paintings, rooted in observation and in place, assay tone and the prismatic color spectrum. They disrupt the idea that landscape, as such, is static, even material. Indeed, the supposed permanence of landscape here becomes an opalescent memorial to a world continually undone by geologic forces: plate tectonics, volcanism, earthquakes, glaciation, erosion, sedimentation, and in just the last two hundred years, the anthropogenic increase of atmospheric carbon dioxide. In these processes of decrease and increase, of dissipation and concentration, and transformations by repeated subtraction and addition, Bozif sees an analogue to the act of painting itself. As he embraces the challenge of interpreting what was once seen as the quintessential subject of American landscape painting, his diaphanous curtains of pigment and light test the very limits of the genre and its conventions.
Opening: Sept 8, 5-9 pm
runs through Oct 7, 2023
Artist talk with Cole Pierce
Sept 16, 1-4 pm
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