Nate Young: But not yet: in the spirit of lunguistics
@ Monique Meloche Gallery
2154 W Division St, Chicago, IL 60622
Opening Saturday, February 7th, from 4PM - 7PM
On view through Saturday, March 28th
Artist Talk with Bartholomew Ryan, Assistant Curator of Visual Art at the Walker Art Center: 4-5pm
Reception: 5-7pm
Monique Meloche Gallery is pleased to announce the gallery’s first solo exhibition with Minneapolis-based artist Nate Young. Young’s conceptual practice allows him to move fluidly between different mediums, often conflating multiple subjects and material. In this body of work, the artist combines language and signifiers with graphite and paper to create deliberately worked diagrammatic drawings that are austere and poetic. Young derives his inspiration from the Swiss linguist and semiotician Ferdinand de Saussure and his father’s theological background. This combination of lucid materials and esoteric concepts identifies the space between language and cognition, the signifier and the signified; articulating the connection between. This moment of cognition is further amplified by the inclusion of a distinct, codified language that is an extension of post-structuralism, informed by religious doctrine.
Nate Young (American b. 1981, Minneapolis, MN, lives Minneapolis) received his MFA from the California Institute of the Arts in 2009, BA from Northwestern College in Minnesota in 2004, and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2009. Recent solo and group exhibitions include Retreat, curated by Theaster Gates, Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago (2014); Tony Lewis, Nate Young, at Room East, New York (2014); Joy at the Suburban, Chicago (2013); the Soap Factory’s Minnesota Biennial (2013); Fore, at The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2012); Go Tell It on the Mountain, at the California African American Museum, Los Angeles (2012). Nate is the recipient of the Knight Arts Challenge Fellowship from the Knight Foundation (2014), the Bush Fellowship for Visual Artists (2010) and the Jerome Fellowship for Emerging Artists (2014). His work is in notable public collections, including the Walker Art Center. Young is co-founder and director of the artist run exhibition space, The Bindery Projects, in Minneapolis.
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