Steve Williams and Dave Richards: Muscle Fiber Sunrise
@ UNUM
3039 W Carroll Ave, 315, Chicago IL 6062.
Opening Saturday, February 25th, from 1PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, April 1st
UNUM is pleased to announce “Muscle Fiber Sunrise” a 2-person exhibition of recent work by Steve Williams and Dave Richards.
Both Stephen Williams and Dave Richards came to prominence in Chicago in the 1990s, with deeply personal paintings and idiosyncratic relief sculptures that acknowledged the influence of the Chicago Imagists who preceded them, but contained a gravity, materiality and lexicon of their own.
Each artist explores landscapes and narratives through a personal material vocabulary — Williams working with biomorphic imagery in acrylic on paper and ink, and Richards constructing and collaging artworks that resemble games, toys, contraptions, organs and drones. Both artists deftly employ erasure and accumulation, highly finished areas contrasting with the rough, and memory – synaptic or sentimental – as a running theme most easily seen in idiosyncratic text and titles.
Muscle Fiber Sunrise: synapses firing, goo connecting scaley surfaces, drones and biomass, puzzle pieces that fit – or not. Erasure, construction, spirituality, mystery. Connectivity, electricity, strength, resilience, landscape and light.
UNUM is open Saturdays 1-5pm and by appointment. Access by dialing 312-909-5902.
Contact: Barbara Koenen koenen@gmail.com 312-909-5902 www.facebook.com/unummunu
L: Steve Williams. “.) This is dark history. “Fire pots and campfires in lightening fields make shadowy planets grow”.
R: Dave Richards Jester’s Cup
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