Chambers Gallery- Portland Oregon- Opening January 6th, 2011
January 06 - 29, 2011
Opening reception January 6 6 - 8:30pm
Scott Johnson: The body of work in Incidentals skirts the ground between materiality and representation. It plays with flatness, dimension, and atmosphere by using light as a substance, producing halos on reflective surfaces that evoke such phenomena as light on the horizon, glowing snowdrifts or the corona around the sun during an eclipse. Informed by the tradition of trompe l’oeil painting and the history of virtual spaces, Incidentals explores our long-time enthrallment with illusion, offering simple alterations of the picture plane that are meant to be easily discernible without reducing the magic of the optical experience.
Ethan Jackson: Strait is an unconventional video work in which distorted imagers swirl together on a pedestal’s surface. Viewed in the accompanying cylindrical mirrors, the images resolve into paired elemental landscapes.
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