Anthony Pearson
@ Shane Campbell Gallery (Chicago)
673 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
Opening Friday, September 10th, from 6PM - 8PM
On view through Saturday, October 9th
For much of the past decade, Anthony Pearson has photographed non-objective drawings of ink, acrylic, and spray-paint applied to small, manipulated sheets of aluminum foil. The resulting compositions recall modes of twentieth century abstraction transformed by scale, photographic processes, and the darkroom technique of solarization. These images of Pearson’s once existing drawings are often grouped as sets but have more recently been paired with bronze slabs or columns to create tableaus that Pearson titles Arrangements. Such combinations of framed photographs and pedestal-mounted bronzes confuse, if not magnify, the relationship between image and object.
Pearson’s latest project of placing solarized silver gelatin photographs amongst comparably scaled bronzes continues to illuminate his phenomenological and art historical concerns. In this installation, the pedestal is abandoned in favor of affixing bronze tablets directly to the wall. The new alignment flattens the face of each bronze likening the cast surface to the depicted textures framed and now hanging on the same plane. This type of mimicry collapses sculpture and image distinctions complicating each work’s materiality, production and perception.
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