Joe Mancuso: Not Obvious as Songs | Paul Fleming: Carefully Wrapped
Past exhibition
Overview
Barbara Davis Gallery is pleased to announce Carefully Wrapped, an exhibition by artist Paul Fleming and Not Obvious as Songs, an exhibition by artist Joe Mancuso, opening Thursday, October 11th, 2018 with an artist’s reception from 6:00 - 8:00pm. This exhibition is on view through November 10, 2018.
In this exhibition, Carefully Wrapped, Paul Fleming presents new site-specific installations that continue his process driven practice. Captivated by the forms of everyday objects, Fleming casts the objects in hydrocal and resin, while utilizing the voids as vessels for color resin. Stripped of their conventional function, the objects are transformed into non-objective elements that examine the formal aspects of material and form. Color interactions either steadily gradate, or abruptly dissipate—the translucent layers of pigmented resin resembling glass-like pools that vary in depth and opacity. Volume, repetition, and scale are integral to Fleming’s process as the individual elements are duplicated to create immersive, rhythmic patterns. Collectively, the sculptures appear to undulate, confronting the viewer’s visual perception and activating the actual physical space.
In this exhibition, Not Obvious as Songs, Joe Mancuso presents new works, which includes paintings and sculpture, reexamining concepts and themes throughout his practice and translates them into his latest body of work. The work exemplifies a contemporary perspective on still-life subject matters, which places them in a unique art historical context. The content provides a common thread between the work, yet each illustrates a distinct methodology as the forms evolve from one work to the next.
About the artist Joe Mancuso:
Joe Mancuso lives and works in Houston, Texas. He received his MFA from Indiana University and BFA from Colorado State University. Mancuso’s solo exhibitions have included the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, with an accompanying catalogue; the El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, Texas; AR Contemporary, Milan, Italy; New York University, New York; and Galveston Art Center, Galveston, Texas. His group exhibitions have included the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH); Edward Albeeís Other Eye, Selections from the Albeeis Collection, Wilding Cran Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Hillwood Art Museum, Brookeville, New York; ArtPace, San Antonio, Texas; the McKinney Avenue Contemporary (MAC), Dallas, Texas; Serio Tossi Contemporary in Florence, Italy; New Orleans Triennial, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana, with an accompanying catalogue; Art Cologne, Cologne, Germany; Galerie Rotoff, Karlsruhe, Germany; the Phoenix Art Museum, School 33, Baltimore, MD, and the Blaffer Gallery at the University of Houston, with an accompanying catalogue, and Kiyo Hagashi Gallery, Los Angeles. His works are included in a number of private and museum collections including the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, El Paso Museum of Art, and the University of Houston.
In this exhibition, Carefully Wrapped, Paul Fleming presents new site-specific installations that continue his process driven practice. Captivated by the forms of everyday objects, Fleming casts the objects in hydrocal and resin, while utilizing the voids as vessels for color resin. Stripped of their conventional function, the objects are transformed into non-objective elements that examine the formal aspects of material and form. Color interactions either steadily gradate, or abruptly dissipate—the translucent layers of pigmented resin resembling glass-like pools that vary in depth and opacity. Volume, repetition, and scale are integral to Fleming’s process as the individual elements are duplicated to create immersive, rhythmic patterns. Collectively, the sculptures appear to undulate, confronting the viewer’s visual perception and activating the actual physical space.
In this exhibition, Not Obvious as Songs, Joe Mancuso presents new works, which includes paintings and sculpture, reexamining concepts and themes throughout his practice and translates them into his latest body of work. The work exemplifies a contemporary perspective on still-life subject matters, which places them in a unique art historical context. The content provides a common thread between the work, yet each illustrates a distinct methodology as the forms evolve from one work to the next.
About the artist Joe Mancuso:
Joe Mancuso lives and works in Houston, Texas. He received his MFA from Indiana University and BFA from Colorado State University. Mancuso’s solo exhibitions have included the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, with an accompanying catalogue; the El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, Texas; AR Contemporary, Milan, Italy; New York University, New York; and Galveston Art Center, Galveston, Texas. His group exhibitions have included the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH); Edward Albeeís Other Eye, Selections from the Albeeis Collection, Wilding Cran Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Hillwood Art Museum, Brookeville, New York; ArtPace, San Antonio, Texas; the McKinney Avenue Contemporary (MAC), Dallas, Texas; Serio Tossi Contemporary in Florence, Italy; New Orleans Triennial, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana, with an accompanying catalogue; Art Cologne, Cologne, Germany; Galerie Rotoff, Karlsruhe, Germany; the Phoenix Art Museum, School 33, Baltimore, MD, and the Blaffer Gallery at the University of Houston, with an accompanying catalogue, and Kiyo Hagashi Gallery, Los Angeles. His works are included in a number of private and museum collections including the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, El Paso Museum of Art, and the University of Houston.
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