an exhibition curated by Jay Hines
featuring work by:
Bhakti Baxter
John Bucklin
Charles Dubé
Jay Hines
Winston McCarthy
Beatriz Monteavaro
Daniel Newman
Martin Oppel
Mike Taylor
Jonathan Thomas
Addison Walz

Jonathan Thomas

untitled (from the series Izes)

graphite on paper

11 x 14″

Jonathan Thomas

untitled (from the series Izes)

graphite on paper

11 x 14″

John Bucklin

Huckleberry Jam

Mixed Media

12 1/2 x 3 x 3″

John Bucklin

Plain Rock Tumbler

Mixed Media

19 x 10 x 13″

Winston Mcarthey

Standards

corkboard, wooden dowels, painting fragments, pins

dimensions variable

Standards (detail)

Beatriz Monteavaro

Serpent to Sting You

Mixed Media

18 x 12 x 65″

(courtesy of Fredric Snitzer Gallery)

Jay Hines

Pub Grub (drawn-on-shadows)

camping tent parts, masking tape, ink

46 x 22 x 5″

Martin Oppel

untitled (Strata Fiction F)

cement, EPS foam, enamel, pyrite, oil paint, spackle, acrylic paint, Miami limestone, architectural expansion foam, ceiling spray texture.

120 x 18 x 12″

(courtesy of Emmanuel Perrotin Gallery)

Daniel Newman and Jonathan Thomas

130 prints from the series

The Prince of the Airwaves (Tails)

2 portfolios of 68 images

screen print, intaglio, lithography, acrylic, oil, spray paint, graphite, collage with custom clamshell box.

detail

detail

detail

detail

Mike Taylor

untitled

mixed media

60 x 40 x 35″

Bhakti Baxter

untitled

extension chords

dimensions variable

installation view
Addison Walz, Daniel Newman

Daniel Newman

(detail) UGLY LUGGAGE SCULPTURE (FOR INVERTED VITRINE)

found object, coney island sand, inverted vitrine

73 x 23 x 23″

Addison Walz

Painters Tape

oil on canvass with painter’s tape

16 x 12″

Charles Dubé

(entitled)

mixed media

20 x 32″

…Just kidding, there is no theme.

The following text was taken from online conversations other people posted in the Comments section of a blog.

From a (non) practical viewpoint the “theme” attempts to…illuminate the micro-associative thoughts within the mental ether of an individual. At such esoteric altitudes an objective and holistic view can be had. A singular and articulated form becomes recognizable. The shape of this form is created by contextualizing the generalities which lay dormant in disparate works of art, in an effort to perform the intellectual chore of summation. This should always be considered only part true. To draw connections from the mechanics of a thing is called having an inquisitive nature (but you knew that). To draw conclusions from them will never be completely true (like theory). However, if every viewer is obligated to draw their own conclusions, without the use of a thematic device, then static is created, a dull hum permeates, instead of a clicking metronome. Divisive personal assumptions will be the fodder for internal edits, and the outward debate of fiction with those nearby. Here in, lies the actual probability of probability, and an individual meditation on the fact-less parts that live in all works of art. I think this is also the best part.