Richard Blackwell: Hiatus
@ Fernwey
916 N Damen Avenue
Opening Friday, June 19th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Sunday, July 19th
…These sci-fi-Tupperware vessels are nevertheless the most manifestly useable objects depicted in the suite of prints. They could be made and made useful, unlike the maze of interlinking CTA handrails, unlike the 3D scanned pile of never melting snow on travertine blocks, unlike the dumped out pile of useless warped screws. The CNC router has been bent out of axis; the mirror has been curved concavely. These objects refer to tools and materials that manufacture other tools and materials, and yet their representation here, though gleaming at a distance, has a moment when the depth effect is destroyed. Artmaking is also mythmaking, and myths are most useful when interpreting other myths…
Read the full article here:
http://www.fernwey.com/hiatus-gan-uyeda
Richard Blackwell is an Australian Artist living in Chicago. Based In printmedia, Blackwell’s interdisciplinary work creates an account of the experience of living and interacting in our current social reality: An experience which is the result of countless phenomenological interactions and relationships that are mediated by technology, ideology and the concrete structure of the built environment.
Richard is a recent Alumni and Faculty member of SAIC, and a founding Director of Fernwey Gallery. Although he is leaving Chicago, he intends to continue his involvement in the gallery from afar.
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