Tomorrow Takes Care
@ Stasias Gallery
44 E Cedar St, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Friday, November 22nd, from 5PM - 8PM
On view through Friday, December 27th
Stasias Gallery is happy to announce opening of “Tomorrow Takes Care”
Duo show with Atticus Gordon and Martin Golland.
Atticus Gordon and Martin Golland’s paintings probe the intricate relationship between the individual and the environment, symbols and expressions, perception and emotions, fiction and reality. Using various strategies of abstraction and representation together, they present instants wherein perception surpasses representation.
They seek an inner dimension at the edges of objects, subjects, metaphor and narrative. These works attempt to connect thought and bodily sensation in the material act of making. They reflect the question back to us, asking ‘what is it you see?’
For Golland and Gordon, the core engagement with their images is through acts of searching. They feel their way through paintings, grasping and letting go, forming and unmaking, adding and taking away. Using methods of abstraction and figuration interchangeably in order to unearth possibilities, and discover unexpected relationships between a variety of paint modes where unforeseen connections are made.
Working between image-making, mark-making and found images, Atticus Gordon constructs worlds that are enigmatic, passing easily between figuration, abstraction, and representation. Combining and involving all these approaches, his paintings are frames, in which worlds nest inside worlds, and logic shifts. In Gordon’s view, perception and imagination combine to form our understanding of reality; in his paintings this epistemology becomes a restless search for meaning.
Martin Golland’s paintings offer a meeting point between a built environment and the natural world. He seeks to open up a space between living forms and their contexts where painting begins to acquire a life of its own at a distance from logic, reason and coherence. The recent work is an accumulation of selected fragments, collaged compositions and non-reconciled contrasts that contaminate its presumptions. Attuning to the unexpected disjunction and the incomplete, Martin Golland attempts to trouble fixed dualities of chaos and order, surface and substance. Neither landscapes nor abstractions proper, these works rely on making an imaginary space of recollection and dream, anticipation and loss, nostalgia and forgetfulness that welcomes the unknowable.
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