WASHED UP AND BLEACHED OUT
WASHED UP AND BLEACHED OUT
Jess Fuller
Sam Moyer
Curated by Jens Peter Brask
duration: 2.12. 2011 – 13.1. 2012
opening: friday 2.12. 2011, 5-7 pm
CUBE:
Aspen Mays
This time, Galleri Tom Christoffersen exhibits a trio of American artists. Jess Fuller and Sam Moyer inhabit the gallery room with paintings made out of various fabric and textiles, while Aspen Mays’ photographs are on display in the Cube. All three of them create their pictures out of existing materials and, each in their own way, focus on themes such as coincidence and order, delineation and fluidity. Process and transformation are leitmotifs in most of the pictures, which however appear beautifully finished in a superb demonstration of what might be called a ‘spherical aesthetics’.
Jess Fuller’s works take turns with the sculptural as stuffed objects float in free space and unravelled threads describe curves formed by their own weight. Existentialist concepts take on tangible form in the human-like piece that lazily weighs itself down on several levels.
Sam Moyer’s pictures consist of fabric glued tightly on panels, where motifs are created in the interaction between folds, fabric colour and bleaching processes. As a kind of rigorously grey-scaled batik patterns, Moyer’s works tie themselves closely with the history of abstract modernism, but also with the very different tradition of landscape paintings, and a physical mimicry of black and white photographic process using domestic materials.
Jess Fuller (1972) is educated at Boston University, Boston, MA and University of Iowa, Iowa City. Selected exhibitions: 2011 Text / Image, Southfirst, Brooklyn, NY. The Idea of the Thing… Halsey McKay, East Hampton, NY. Group Expo, The Armory Show, Canada Gallery, NY. 2010 Material Issue and Other Matters, Canada Gallery, NY. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
Sam Moyer (1983) is educated at Corcoran College of Art and Design and Yale School of Art. Selected exhibitions: 2010 Shape Shifters, Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, NY, Greater New York, P.S.1, Queens, NY. Transfer Function, ZeiherSmith Gallery, New York, NY. 2009 In the Offing, Max Hans Daniel, Berlin, Germany. Between Spaces, P.S. 1, Queens, NY. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
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CUBE:
Aspen Mays (US)
duration: 2.12. 2011 – 13.1. 2012
opening: friday 2.12. 2011, 5-7 pm
About the exhibition
Aspen Mays shows work from the series “Sun Ruins” and “Punched Out Stars”. In Chile at Santiago University’s astronomical observatory, she got access to an abandoned darkroom and archive. Here she created a series of images from found materials including an old study of sunspots from 1957. The black / white pictures appear as concrete art with the circle of the sun in different formations plotted in larger grids. In other works, she has punched out the stars and left us to ourselves in an abstract pattern. And finally the piece 1% is a recording of the TV screen static, where the title refers to the 1% radiation from a TV screen actually comes from Big Bang.
Aspen Mays (1980) is educated at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Michaelis School of Fine Art, Cape Town, South Africa and University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Selected exhibitions 2011 Sun Ruins, Golden Gallery, NY. Always the Young Strangers, Higher Pictures, NY, Forms and Inflections, Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, Our Origins, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago. 2010 Every leaf on a tree, New Artists/New Work, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. She lives and works Los Angeles, CA.
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