Artist reception Sat, Feb 21, 4-6pm, exhibition February 21 - April 04, 2015
Catharine Clark Gallery presents an exhibition of new work by Chester Arnold in our main gallery space, with a simultaneous exhibit of work by Kurt Stallaert in our dedicated media room.
Chester Arnold will exhibit new paintings imbued with the passionate intensity, colorful history, and fecund forms and sources referenced in his renderings of earth's extremes. Mining as a metaphorical and literal phenomenon is an obsessive subject for Arnold. Arnold grew up on fantastical stories of his ancestors in the gold trade: one uncle smuggled gold across the US-Mexico border landing himself in San Quentin another left Arnold enough money from his mining adventures to finance a European tour for the young, struggling artist. But the abundance drawn out of the earth holds as much meaning for the artist as the cavity left behind. The mesmerizing form of the mine spiral is what anchors the work. The romantic beauty of the natural landscape-the pond, the trees, the sky and snake-are subverted by Arnold's preoccupation with the detritus of human accumulation littering the scene. The landscape however, in power and abundance, triumphs-a departure for Arnold. Rendered awestruck by the natural phenomena he witnessed around the time of his exhibit at the Nevada Museum of Art in 2010, Arnold's new divergence, informed by greats like Carl Blechen and Johan Christian Dahl, seems an egress from the politics of landscape and a renewed attempt to bear witness to the might of heaven and earth.
Kurt Stallaert, a Belgium based contemporary artist and art director, explores the boundaries between the real and surreal through photography and innovative video-based work. Man with Lamb is a 'moving still': Stallaert's unique fusion medium, created by combining elements of both film and photography. With neither the narrative of a movie, nor the stillness of a photo, Stallaert's work focuses viewers on the key message of his work-that of the picture.
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