“Just Breathe Normally”
@ Autumn Space
1700 W Irving Park Rd #207, Chicago IL 60613
Opening Saturday, September 17th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, October 8th
Artist Discussion with Frank Piatek at 7:30pm
Autumn Space is pleased to present Brian Hubble’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. “Just Breathe Normally” is comprised of nine works that interweave themes of narrative, authorship, and the nature of the comedic in contemporary art.
More specifically, Hubble’s art plays upon the plausible through artifacts of narrative. Evidenced in the selection of titles, audio recordings, and other performative gestures, the viewer must shift between various descriptive devices to experience the particular story being conveyed. Humor is an entry point into several of the pieces, utilizing tactics such as the pun, pointing to lapses in our attention to language.
Questions of authorship underlie several pieces in the exhibition. Hubble critically engages the status of post-appropriation strategies in quoting artworks that defy documentation and within the gesture of appropriation itself. These works provoke the viewer to decipher the act of authorship as either a transfer or transformation of ownership, an operation that reveals that the criteria for the viewer, and perhaps the artist, may oscillate somewhere in between.
Brian Hubble (b. 1978 Newport News, Virginia) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. His works have been exhibited internationally including group exhibitions in Canada and Hong Kong. Hubble completed his M.F.A. at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2011 where he was the recipient of the William Merchant R. French Fellowship.
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