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Un-identified Objects
October 6 - 27, 2018
Opening Reception October 6th. 6-10pm
Richard Bohn, Candice Gawne, Steven Roberts
RICHARD BOHN
"Un-Identified Objects” whose real identity is a total abstraction of reality. An object whose only identifier is that it is art or said to be art. What it may have been before is un-known. Manipulated in its treatment and juxtaposition to other elements the un-known object takes on a new elevated identity. The distance in time and space between a scrap pile or mountain trail to a pristene gallery becomes small. l declare that I’m an artist therefore I am. My work is roughly if not probably based on a process called “Intuitive Collecting”. This raw material of un-identified displaced objects is not yet art. Art is therefore the transformation.
CANDICE GAWNE
Candice Gawne’s work has been featured in over forty museum and gallery exhibitions, worldwide. The Frederick Weisman Art Foundation, the Cabrillo Marine Aquarium and the Corning Museum of Glass are among the several institutions that contain Gawne’s sculptures in their permanent collections. Gawne’s work derives its essence from the symbiotic relationship between light and darkness, and the energy emitted from this codependency. Her translucent glass sculptures echo the sinuous forms of flora and fauna found in nature and the deep sea.
STEVE ROBERTS
Steve Roberts takes ordinary objects and alters their identity by placing them in a different context, then combining them with other materials to create dream-like scenes. Radio tubes found at a flea market–when juxtaposed with figures used in architectural models–are transformed into factory dynamos. A simple piece of wire is transformed into a burst of electricity, and a drawer from an old Victorian desk is transformed into a shadow box world. The scenes are not meant to represent any literal person, place or time. They are anonymous figures in a timeless surreal landscape. Incorporating light into the work casts shadows that create an additional level of abstraction and make the objects in his work even more un-identifiable
STATEMENT
There is mystery in art. How was it done, how long did it take? What were you thinking? Was a special technique or material employed? Were you at the beach when it happened? Does the art take you away to a distant space when you spend time with it? Away, to the depths of the ocean or the depths of your thoughts. The world of the miniature, where the viewer is omnipotent and all-seeing, where ordinary objects in time and space of the common perception become transformed and elevated in esthetic stature, to an essential role in the collective whole. Un-Identified objects whose real identity is a complete abstraction of reality, where an object’s only identifier is that it is art or said to be art. What it may have been before as un-known now is known. In its treatment and juxtaposition to other elements the distance between a scrap pile or mountain trail to a pristine gallery becomes small. l declare that I’m an artist therefore I am. The work is based on a process called “Intuitive Collecting”. This body of raw material of un-identified displaced elements is therefore transformed. Art.
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