Shane Campbell Gallery is pleased to open
its new location at 673 North Milwaukee Avenue on the occasion of Anthony
Pearson’s second solo exhibition in
Chicago.
For much of the past decade, Pearson has
photographed non-objective drawings of ink, acrylic, and spray-paint applied to
small, manipulated sheets of aluminum foil. The resulting compositions
recall modes of twentieth century abstraction transformed by scale, photographic
processes, and the darkroom technique of solarization. These images of
Pearson’s once existing drawings are often grouped as sets but have more
recently been paired with bronze slabs or columns to create tableaus that
Pearson titles Arrangements. Such combinations of framed
photographs and pedestal-mounted bronzes confuse, if not magnify, the
relationship between image and
object.
Pearson’s latest project of placing
solarized silver gelatin photographs amongst comparably scaled bronzes continues
to illuminate his phenomenological and art historical concerns. In this
installation, the pedestal is abandoned in favor of affixing bronze tablets
directly to the wall. The new alignment flattens the face of each bronze
likening the cast surface to the depicted textures framed and now hanging on the
same plane. This type of mimicry collapses sculpture and image
distinctions complicating each work’s materiality, production, and
perception.
Anthony Pearson lives in Los Angeles.
His work is currently on view in At Home/Not At Home: Works from the
Collection of Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg, at CCS Bard,
Annandale-on-Hudson. Pearson’s work was the subject of a 2008 solo
exhibition at Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis. A catalog entitled,
Solarizations, was published in conjunction with the exhibition.
Pearson had his first solo exhibition in New York at Marianne Boesky Gallery in
September of 2009. A forthcoming solo exhibition of new work will take place at
David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles in December of this year.
Pearson’s photographs are included in the public collections of the Hammer
Museum, Los Angeles and the Walker Art Center,
Minneapolis.
To obtain additional information please call
the gallery at 312.226.2223, or email
info@shanecampbellgallery.com
