UNCOVER, DISCOVER, DISCARD
Curated by Jessica Minckley, CANAL
ARTISTS
Michael G. Bauer
Emilie Halpern
Sidonie Loiseleux
McIntyre Parker
Eric Yahnker
Presented in collaboration with
GOLDEN AGE
119 N Peoria St, #2D
Chicago, IL 60607
312-288-8535
May 29th - June 27th, 2010
Opening Reception: Saturday, May 29th 6-9pm
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This exhibition, UNCOVER, DISCOVER, DISCARD delves into the taboo of sentimentalism by presenting five different ways of expressing ideas through art forms. Each artist in this show approaches emotionalism in a different way- Yahnker takes a comic approach, Parker is documentary, Halpern is obtuse, Bauer is diagramtic, and Loiseleux is removed. But all of the content in the works relate to an investigation of awe-inspiring phenomena and our relationship to image and feeling. Overall, these objects are thorough and respectable contemporary investigations of our relation to austere forms and introspection.
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(ABOVE)
Emilie Halpern
Apollo, 2009
Space Blanket, halogen spotlight
56 x 84 inches
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Sidonie Loiseleux
Plate # 1, 2010
Digital C-print
30x30 inches
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McIntyre Parker
Untitled, 2006
digital video, sound, 01’41” loop
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Eric Yahnker
Radio with Rod Stewart Features, 2007
Graphite on paper
30 x 44 inches
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Michael G. Bauer
Meditational Love Drawing, for Cecilia, 2010
Pen on Paper
14 x 22 inches
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It is uncommon to see an exhibition which focuses on sentiment directly. More often I find myself in the middle of a gallery room overwhelmed with sentiments of my own about the images I’m seeing; relating to art pieces as an island; surrounded by the ebb and flow of strangers with their secret experiences and theoretical musings.
I take my relationship with art pieces home, and I keep them with me until it is time to sit down in my studio to make artwork of my own. Those pieces which tackle issues of melancholy, love and other emotions are particularly relevant to my practice. It seems dreadfully uncool to make art about existentialism or human experience because it is hard to do so without being trite or didactic.
More often than this, I meet artworks, like people, who keep their cool; individuals with their own sense of style, who hide their fears, as anyone with good boundaries would; holding back on their most passionate opinions until you know them better. I brew my thoughts about what little data I have gathered. I make snap judgments. I read more and I wonder. Who are they? What do they really think?
The works in the exhibition Uncover, Discover, Discard are meant, as a group, to pose a question about our secretive relationship with art that is touchy feely, art that seeks to expose our sentimentality by using a few different tropes. Each artist in this exhibition has a very personal relationship to the work they are making, but are never heavy handed. The statements made are inspirational to me because of the larger meaning of their gestures, yet they all maintain an inherent simplicity that allows this content to remain light and fleeting.
UNCOVER, DISCOVER, DISCARD
Curated by Jessica Minckley, CANAL
ARTISTS
Michael G. Bauer
Emilie Halpern
Sidonie Loiseleux
McIntyre Parker
Eric Yahnker
Presented in collaboration with
GOLDEN AGE
119 N Peoria St, #2D
Chicago, IL 60607
312-288-8535
May 29th - June 27th, 2010
Opening Reception: Saturday, May 29th 6-9pm
.
This exhibition, UNCOVER, DISCOVER, DISCARD delves into the taboo of sentimentalism by presenting five different ways of expressing ideas through art forms. Each artist in this show approaches emotionalism in a different way- Yahnker takes a comic approach, Parker is documentary, Halpern is obtuse, Bauer is diagramtic, and Loiseleux is removed. But all of the content in the works relate to an investigation of awe-inspiring phenomena and our relationship to image and feeling. Overall, these objects are thorough and respectable contemporary investigations of our relation to austere forms and introspection.
.
(ABOVE)
Emilie Halpern
Apollo, 2009
Space Blanket, halogen spotlight
56 x 84 inches
.
.
Sidonie Loiseleux
Plate # 1, 2010
Digital C-print
30x30 inches
.
McIntyre Parker
Untitled, 2006
digital video, sound, 01’41” loop
.
Eric Yahnker
Radio with Rod Stewart Features, 2007
Graphite on paper
30 x 44 inches
.
.
Michael G. Bauer
Meditational Love Drawing, for Cecilia, 2010
Pen on Paper
14 x 22 inches
.
It is uncommon to see an exhibition which focuses on sentiment directly. More often I find myself in the middle of a gallery room overwhelmed with sentiments of my own about the images I’m seeing; relating to art pieces as an island; surrounded by the ebb and flow of strangers with their secret experiences and theoretical musings.
I take my relationship with art pieces home, and I keep them with me until it is time to sit down in my studio to make artwork of my own. Those pieces which tackle issues of melancholy, love and other emotions are particularly relevant to my practice. It seems dreadfully uncool to make art about existentialism or human experience because it is hard to do so without being trite or didactic.
More often than this, I meet artworks, like people, who keep their cool; individuals with their own sense of style, who hide their fears, as anyone with good boundaries would; holding back on their most passionate opinions until you know them better. I brew my thoughts about what little data I have gathered. I make snap judgments. I read more and I wonder. Who are they? What do they really think?
The works in the exhibition Uncover, Discover, Discard are meant, as a group, to pose a question about our secretive relationship with art that is touchy feely, art that seeks to expose our sentimentality by using a few different tropes. Each artist in this exhibition has a very personal relationship to the work they are making, but are never heavy handed. The statements made are inspirational to me because of the larger meaning of their gestures, yet they all maintain an inherent simplicity that allows this content to remain light and fleeting.
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