"...Looking at myself from the second floor of an Italian restaurant in the Catskills..."
Alex Chaves, Alex Felton, Sean Raspet, Carlos Reyes, Sydney Shen, Amy Yao
June 19th - July 26th, 2015
American Medium is proud to present "…Looking at myself from the second floor of an Italian restaurant in the Catskills…" an exhibition of work by Alex Chaves, Alex Felton, Sean Raspet, Carlos Reyes, Sydney Shen, and Amy Yao.
‘The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates; the more perfectly will the mind digest and transmute the passions which are its material’ - T.S Eliot
“She trims her hair with pearls as she sits by the shore, she gazes in a rapture at the wind rushing through the trees.”
I am sitting in an Italian restaurant, age 9, looking out the window onto the main street of a dusty, sun drenched town in some part of the Catskills. The mountains surround and the fog rolling off of them breaks the sun into rays. I look down at the plastic-checkered tablecloth and then back up again at the window of the restaurant and then back down at the gravel road. The dust particles mix together, bond to one another, become as large as my eyes.
Delays, stops, starts, shifts.
Something reaches out across the void dug up by a memory. Meaning is lost, but the sense, the object’s feeling remains intact. The breakdown and the restoration does not diminish the intrinsic qualities.
Sunlight felt in 1995 can be sunlight felt twenty years later. Time elongates, the cord widens, stretches, tightens.
The term “hour” is used figuratively; the effect has no clearly defined duration.
Alex Chaves, Alex Felton, Sean Raspet, Carlos Reyes, Sydney Shen, Amy Yao
June 19th - July 26th, 2015
American Medium is proud to present "…Looking at myself from the second floor of an Italian restaurant in the Catskills…" an exhibition of work by Alex Chaves, Alex Felton, Sean Raspet, Carlos Reyes, Sydney Shen, and Amy Yao.
‘The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates; the more perfectly will the mind digest and transmute the passions which are its material’ - T.S Eliot
“She trims her hair with pearls as she sits by the shore, she gazes in a rapture at the wind rushing through the trees.”
I am sitting in an Italian restaurant, age 9, looking out the window onto the main street of a dusty, sun drenched town in some part of the Catskills. The mountains surround and the fog rolling off of them breaks the sun into rays. I look down at the plastic-checkered tablecloth and then back up again at the window of the restaurant and then back down at the gravel road. The dust particles mix together, bond to one another, become as large as my eyes.
Delays, stops, starts, shifts.
Something reaches out across the void dug up by a memory. Meaning is lost, but the sense, the object’s feeling remains intact. The breakdown and the restoration does not diminish the intrinsic qualities.
Sunlight felt in 1995 can be sunlight felt twenty years later. Time elongates, the cord widens, stretches, tightens.
The term “hour” is used figuratively; the effect has no clearly defined duration.
Carlos Reyes
Untitled (American Medium #2), 2015
ink, gesso, patina on paper
8 x 6 inches
Untitled (American Medium #2), 2015
ink, gesso, patina on paper
8 x 6 inches
Carlos Reyes
Untitled (American Medium #3), 2015
patina on paper, copper wire, red sea salt, hardware
dimensions variable
Untitled (American Medium #3), 2015
patina on paper, copper wire, red sea salt, hardware
dimensions variable
Alex Chaves
Bathroom Mirror, 2014 oil on canvas 12 x 15 inches |
Alex Chaves
Grace, 2015 oil on canvas 14 x 18 inches |
Alex Chaves
Portrait of N Duran, 2015 oil on canvas 40 x 48 inches |
Sydney Shen
Moonlight Sonata (Woman in the Dunes), 2015 digital print on aluminum, steel, hardware 20 x 33 inches |
Alex Felton
Jack of Hearts, 2015 oil, mylar, photocopy, magnets on whiteboard 23 x 35 inches |
Alex Felton
Whose Tongue Is Dat?, 2008 acrylic, charcoal, graphite, sumi ink 17 x 19 inches |
Amy Yao
Apocolystapussy, 2014 fiberglass, polyester resin, aluminum 45 x 19.25 x 30.5 inches |
Amy Yao
Awkward and Lonely, 2015
plastic, vinyl, metal
16 x 12 x 8 inches
Awkward and Lonely, 2015
plastic, vinyl, metal
16 x 12 x 8 inches
Carlos Reyes
Untitled (American Medium #1), 2015
patinaed pineapple top, cable wire, hardware
dimensions variable
Untitled (American Medium #1), 2015
patinaed pineapple top, cable wire, hardware
dimensions variable
Sean Raspet
Program for Algorithmic Smoke Assembly, 2014-2015
12 primary component molecules of smoke (1,2,4-trimethylbenzene, 4-methyl-2, 6-dimethoxyphenol, creosol, cyclotene, formic acid, guaiacol, m-cresol, naph- thalene, p-cresol, resorcinol, syringaldehyde, syringol) with logical program and randomized probability function
dimensions variable
Program for Algorithmic Smoke Assembly, 2014-2015
12 primary component molecules of smoke (1,2,4-trimethylbenzene, 4-methyl-2, 6-dimethoxyphenol, creosol, cyclotene, formic acid, guaiacol, m-cresol, naph- thalene, p-cresol, resorcinol, syringaldehyde, syringol) with logical program and randomized probability function
dimensions variable
Sydney Shen
Woman in the Dunes (Moonlight Sonata), 2015
die-cut flip flops
dimensions variable
Woman in the Dunes (Moonlight Sonata), 2015
die-cut flip flops
dimensions variable