DOCTRINE OF SIGNATURES
As a part of Embassy Gallery’s ANNUALE, a few of my friends and I have put together a exhibition.
Doctrine of Signatures brings together eight artists who make an interpretation of their experience walking, talking and being inspired while exploring the John Muir Country Park in Dunbar, Scotland.
West Barns Studios, School Brae, West Barns, Dunbar EH42 1UD
Hope to see you there.
Marble Download
Here is the exhibition stage of ‘Chance Situation 3’ installed at Embassy Gallery. The exhibition is up for another few days so check it out if you are around.
It was a good holiday.
For the Marble Download show at Embassy Gallery, I will include a work that pulls from various recent inquires: destruction, painting, and chance. I started the work in October by painting the canvas, and now it has been cut up into 42 pieces (number chosen by an online number generator). The work will be installed by someone else (yet to be determined), employing chance stemming from the stipulations dictated by me.
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Anticipation
smash painting
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detail
mandatory
final placement for Gradient Cube
MFA interim exhibition is coming up fast.
I will have a piece in the show, and I highly recommend seeing it if you are in Scotland.
Jason Gringler
Broken Self by Rafael Rozendaal at Spencer Brownstone Gallery, NYC, 2010
Vice Magazine featured my work today. Check it out here.
That was fast.
My studio is all set up for assessment. The work on the walls this semester exist more as inquires and experimentation rather than finished pieces. Overall, I am pleased with the progress this semester, and wish I didn’t have to move out of this studio for the summer. A chronologic hang didn’t seem right, as I worked on a lot simultaneously, and each piece fed off the next.
I decided to include the gradient cube, which lays underneath my essay “Sunset For an Island”. Though this is from semester 1, it gives a way-in to my proposal for 4 large billboards covered with fluorescent gradients installed on an island in the Howe Sound. I also left the remnants of glass, which hints at the importance of process in the smash pieces.
As I was tidying my studio, I came across these left over pieces of canvas from the other day, so I decided to use them. Instead of placing them on a square support this time, I fixed them directly on the wall. There is an interesting relation to the collage work, destructive processes in the smash paintings, and gives me new excitement for painting, and its relation to physical space. Perhaps this is something to develop over the summer.
don’t be too precious now
I have been working on this painting for a few weeks now, and came to the point today where something needed to be done to give it new life. Though I feel pressured at times to depart from painting, I am resistant and always will be. However, I don’t think its good to regurgitate past works which is easy for me to do sometimes.
Thinking about the recent collage works on paper, I decided to cut up the canvas and rework it. I’m usually not too precious with my work, but it wasn’t the easiest thing to cut up this painting, especially because I liked it aesthetically. However, I felt the need for some change, so with my affinity with destruction guiding the scalpel, I cut it up.
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The painting definitely transformed into something exciting….not too sure if or where this will go, but it seems more connected to the other work I’ve been doing this semester (smash paintings, chance situations, collage etc.) which leads me to think it is a beneficial development and a good process to go through.
