Division Gallery is pleased to present Surface and Stratagem, a show of work by nine artists, each of whom investigates surface, spatial play and contrived trickery. Featuring painting, sculpture, prints, and photography, the show runs June 26 to August 15, 2015, and features Maryanne Casasanta, Svea Ferguson, Brendan Flanagan, Mike Goldby, Tyler Los-Jones, Abby McGuane, Dylin North, Jade Rude, and Michael Vickers. The show's reception takes place Friday, June 26 from 6-9pm.
The artists in this...
Division Gallery is pleased to present Surface and Stratagem, a show of work by nine artists, each of whom investigates surface, spatial play and contrived trickery. Featuring painting, sculpture, prints, and photography, the show runs June 26 to August 15, 2015, and features Maryanne Casasanta, Svea Ferguson, Brendan Flanagan, Mike Goldby, Tyler Los-Jones, Abby McGuane, Dylin North, Jade Rude, and Michael Vickers. The show's reception takes place Friday, June 26 from 6-9pm.
The artists in this show share a fascination with material transformation. In contrast to the high modernist credo of "truth to materials", the works in Surface and Stratagem appear to revel in their own deceptive qualities, engaging and surprising by looking like one thing while being another, or by morphing the mundane into the marvelous. Yet, the end game is not simple mischief, but a process of teasing out an unexpected beauty, or a resonant meaning that is more than the sum of its parts.
