James Drake: Can We Know the Sound of Forgiveness
Installation views from James Drake: Can We Know the Sound of Forgiveness – January 2014 exhibition at Arthur Roger@434
Installation views from James Drake: Can We Know the Sound of Forgiveness – January 2014 exhibition at Arthur Roger@434
Installation views from Holton Rower: Viscous Resin Extruding From The Trunk – January 2014 exhibition at Arthur Roger Gallery
Can We Know the Sound of Forgiveness, James Drake’s eleventh exhibition with the gallery, features a collection of the artist’s “red” drawings as well as a grouping of glass sculpture. The pastel drawings continue to reveal the renowned artist’s method and deliberation. The subjects, always personal, are often flecked with faint notations and markings, on paper consumed by the process, sometimes pieced together with exposed tape.
This second exhibition with New York-based artist Holton Rower includes his remarkable “Pour Paintings” along with a unique body of work titled “Focus paintings.” Holton Rower, who has been referred to as a “chemist and sculptor of paint,” is renowned for the incredible color combinations he achieves which can be stunningly psychedelic and hypnotic.
December 2013 Exhibition at Arthur Roger Gallery Photography: Michael Smith
Installation views from David Halliday: Threadbare – December 2013 exhibition at Arthur Roger@434.
Installation views of Pard Morrison: Chromaccumulations, December 2013 exhibition at Arthur Roger Gallery.
Still Life / Nightscape is Kate Blacklock’s first exhibition with the gallery. The artist’s medium-scale works on metal present choreographed tableaus reminiscent of Dutch Vanitas paintings in one series and nightscapes, recalling Japanese screen paintings, in the other. The compositions, which are created using a flatbed scanner as a camera, are captured on dye infused aluminum. They are described by the artist as existing in an ambiguous space, not subject to the laws of gravity. Each of the works conjures an enigmatic moment frozen in time.
The Arthur Roger Gallery is pleased to present Chromaccumulations, an exhibition of new work by contemporary minimalist artist Pard Morrison. The exhibition will be on view at Arthur Roger Gallery, located at 432 Julia Street, from December 7 – December 28, 2013. The gallery will host an opening reception with the artist in attendance, Saturday, December 7 from 6-8 pm.
David Halliday’s photographic series, Threadbare, profoundly builds on his previous work, at once announcing the photographer’s maturity as an artist. Provocative iconography of lost Americana – heavily decayed objects whose original intention has been exhausted – is given a new sort of vitality as his subject matter. The series began with a discarded map, used as a dartboard, that Halliday found stapled (by a prior occupant) to the wall of his upstairs bedroom. It has become the anchor, of sorts, for the group of images presented in the exhibit.