"Walking an exciting new line
in two-dimensional practice,
Brosseau is a painter who has
updated his studio tools to
include a digital tablet as a
new drawing device for ideas
and compositions; on view will
be a larger-scale painting
“Tacky”, a series of small
panel paintings, and a framed
tablet with a slideshow of
recent digital drawings. Using
various layers that are
sandwiched together in his
works or collided against one
another in painterly space,
Brosseau makes investigations
into the psychological and
emotional spaces of
abstraction. By constructing
his work in a graphic but
physical way through gesture,
color, and drawing-based
techniques, he creates foreign
formal spaces and forms that
birth a new world. Here
questions of relationships,
humor, identity, and
environment are raised –
pointing to the elements of
our human experience with the
world around us that are
perhaps best summarized
outside of concrete language."
3.30.2016
Trawick Bouscaren in Three Shows
Opened
Saturday March 26th:
A two-person
installation collaboration with John Schlesinger
Fort
Nights: Neon Robot Iceberg
in the
Firehouse at the Fort Mason Center for Arts &
Culture
Opening
Friday April 1:
A two-person
installation collaboration with Jeremy Morgan
Unlandscape
Opening
Thursday April 7:
A group show
of UCSC current Art Department faculty
In
Conversation
at the Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery,
UCSC
3.22.2016
Jayson Musson opening at Fleisher/Ollman April 1st
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Working
in a variety
of media
including
video,
painting,
textiles,
music, and
performance,
Brooklyn-based
artist Jayson
Musson returns
to
Fleisher/Ollman
for his first
solo
exhibition at
the gallery in
three years.
Musson will
present a new
series of
Coogi sweater
paintings,
exploring the
in-between
spaces of high
art versus
craft,
intentional
versus found
abstraction,
and, most
significantly,
the notion of
ownership of
African-American
popular
culture. These
works are not
paintings at
all, but
recycled Coogi
sweaters—wildly-colored
knit
garments—mounted
on stretchers
and
transformed
into pictures.
This, in effect, operates as a form of colonization over another corner of Black memory, and any reverence these garments received, at least in my opinion, is highly undeserved. I come to the Coogi material as a junk collector of sorts. I consider the sweaters ‘cultural detritus’—just another commodity on a long list of objects many people are manipulated into coveting or consuming...ultimately, this work is about a form of existential disconnection, that even as one retreats into memory in order to counteract the trauma of the present, even these memories are occupied by our enemy. Thus, the alienation of the self is continued even further.
Jayson Musson has had solo exhibitions at Salon 94, New York; Fleisher/Ollman, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Marginal Utility, and Space 1026, all in Philadelphia; and Dazed & Confused Magazine Gallery, London. Musson and Alex Da Corte collaborated on an exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, entitled Easternsports, in 2014. Musson has been featured in numerous group exhibitions at venues including Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; Grey Art Gallery, NYU, New York; Galerie Perrotin, Paris, France; Postmasters, New York; Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; West Galeria, Den Haag, The Netherlands; Grimmuseum, Berlin, Germany; Fleisher/Ollman, Philadelphia; Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; and Cincinnati Contemporary Art Center, Ohio, among others. Musson received his BFA from the University of the Arts, Philadelphia in 2002 and his MFA from the University of Pennsylvania in 2011. He attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2011.
Paige Adair featured in 2016 Slingshot Festival
On view from March 31 - May 7, 2016
Daughter of the Cave explores an underground wanderlust, investigating how we use stories to make explicable the mysteries of our own bodies and the real/imagined spaces we traverse with them. This piece depicts the female protagonist’s explorations through the labyrinthine dreamscape of an imaginary cave. This subterranean feminist saga uses documentary video from Ruby Falls, paintings of the cave, and visual materials research. Musician, Mason Brown composed the score for the video by sculpting together a soundtrack by using exclusively documentary audio recordings gathered during Speleogen’s excursion to Mammoth Cave National Park. Speleogen is the caving branch of artist collective Callosum, an Atlanta-based creative collective that applies methods across media to explore the intersections between art, technology, and the senses.
Paige Adair lives and works in the Atlanta area. She received her MFA in Time Based Media and Painting from the University of Pennsylvania and has been exhibiting throughout the US.
This year, the SLINGSHOT Festival takes over downtown Athens, Georgia March 31 – April 2 2015. Spread over 5 city blocks and dozens of venues, SLINGSHOT spotlights international, national, and local acts on stage, boundary pushing artworks throughout the urban environment, and tech talks with leading innovators. SLINGSHOT also hosts a dedicated comedy night and film screenings. For more information and a schedule of events, visit slingshotathens.com
Daughter of the Cave viewing during regular open hours in the West Gallery.
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