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Brett Amory & Adam Caldwell @ Thinkspace (Aug. 4), by Thinkspace on Jul 21, 2012 4:24:10 GMT 1, 
Brett Amory & Adam Caldwell
'Dirty Laundryโ
Plus in our project room:
Paul Barnes
'Nocturne'
Plus in our office area:
New works from Sean Mahan
Reception with the artists:
Sat., August 4th 5-9PM
Exhibitions on view: August 4th โ August 25th
Take a sneak peek at Amory and Caldwell's new works for 'Dirty Laundryโ here:
www.flickr.com/photos/thinkspace/sets/72157629978563424/
Thinkspace is pleased to present Dirty Laundry, an exhibition of new work by painters Brett Amory and Adam Caldwell. Amory and Caldwell each mobilize their unique representational strategies to invoke the modern day disconnect between time and space, self and other, and present and past. Amoryโs atmospheric preoccupation with memory, the moment, and nostalgia, is dynamically in contrast to Caldwellโs abrupt composites and recombinations of imagery, from sources spanning mass media to antiquity. Both artists approach their medium as a means of problematizing temporal identity, and the social experience, by exposing the nitty gritty polarities and paradigm shifts of an increasingly fractured reality of the self.
Early look at one of Brett Amory's new oil paintings for 'Dirty Laundry' opening August 4th at Thinkspace
Brett Amory
Brett Amoryโs new body of work is a continuation of the artistโs acclaimed series Waiting, a series in which the artist captured his subjects in varying states of suspension and anticipation: waiting for the completion of an unseen event and caught in the standstill of a moment. Amoryโs work relies on photographic media as a means of capturing and documenting the every day subject matter with which he is concerned. He translates these photographic observations into paintings which seek to capture the immediacy of the moment.
The artist uses photography as the primary point of departure in his process, and uses it as a social tool of observation to capture the world around him. He reduces these images to their most striking and elemental parts compositionally, and attempts to convey the fleeting quality of these moments through a painterly and impressionistic treatment of the photograph. This new body of work, however, conveys a sense of spontaneity and immediacy new to the artistโs practice. In Amoryโs earlier work, the preparatory process was deliberately staged and set in order to conform to the artistโs predetermined narrative and aesthetic vision for the painting. Now that the photograph has become an increasingly mobile and socially voyeuristic tool, with new applications such as instagram on the mobile phone, the moment seems less mediated by the staging of process. Amory is free to capture actual moments in the lives of others in passing with this technology, spontaneously, and organically. This technological filter functions as a conduit for the experiences the artist invokes in paint.
The end result is a body of imagery that authentically captures the artistโs real time observation of his subjects, and their daily experiences and encounters. Brett Amory strives to convey his observation of the world around him through work that invokes its passing and transience. The daily routine of the artistโs life, and his observation of the life of others, is central to his process. The work captures a human point of exchange in the creation and inception of the image.
Artist website: www.brettamory.com
Early look at one of Adam Caldwell's new oil paintings for 'Dirty Laundry' opening August 4th at Thinkspace
Adam Caldwell
Adam Caldwellโs background is variegated, a multiplicity clearly evidenced in the artistโs work. The artistโs interest in comics, and ultimately narrative based graphic media, coupled by a highly developed technical acuity for figuration and spatial construction, results in a distinctly unique and recognizable style of painting: a style that is deeply imbricated in, but ultimately subversive of, the communicative shorthands of a variety of visual media. The artist is deftly able to invoke not only the formal properties of those languages, but the affective tone and mood of them as well. Caldwellโs work is informed by an observation and collusive synthesis of these visual media and their corresponding affects. The work presents a patchwork of visual multiplicities and polarized sensibilities. The surfaces are fraught, and frenetic, recombinations of the contemporary experience as observed by Caldwell: an experience in which the self is split and colonized by a competing network of forces.
Formally the work speaks to this freneticism and fracture, combining a collage of styles and influences spanning everything from illustration, photorealism, and classical figuration, to the bombast of advertising and consumer culture media. The artist combines pop cultural imagery with post-apocalyptic images of destruction, and suggestions of advertising with images of warfare. Distinctly dystopian, the self is untenably situated in the midst of these rupturing forces as a complex and fractured entity. The โselfโ in Adam Caldwellโs work is subject to the ravages of an age where pop culture and mass destruction seem oddly at home together in the same image. Caldwell conveys the paradoxical nature of the contemporary psyche: a terrain of unreconciled impulses, libidinal urges, and conflicting imaginaries.
Caldwellโs imagery is complex - a sort of social architectonics. Meaning becomes a process, self- consciously crafted by the associative juxtapositions laid out for us by the artist. A common thread in this work is its intentional ambivalence and recombination, the viewer is left feeling the pull of unreconciled subjects and themes, and is unable to reductively ascribe a singular meaning to them. Aesthetically seductive and visceral, and consummately executed, the paintings are captivating and unrelenting. We are caught in their grasps and actively participate in their meaning.
Artist website: www.adamhuntercaldwell.com
ON VIEW IN OUR PROJECT ROOM:
Paul Barnes โNocturneโ
Nocturne features new work by Scottish artist Paul Barnes. This body of work is whimsical, and delights in the suggestion of the fantastic and the surreal. The childlike creatures from Barnesโ Nocturne seem to exist in a fugue state, dreamy and veiled, dissociated and wandering. Just as the exhibitionโs title suggests, Barnesโ work is shrouded in this twilight haze of the outrรฉ, and the sleepy otherworldliness of the dream state. These pieces are glimpses into a limitless fantasy of legend, dream, and play.
Much in keeping with the symbolist tradition, but reinvigorated by a contemporary illustrative aesthetic, the work is symbolically suggestive and resists literal meanings. The dream stateโs associative work is evident in the host of characters the pieces present, ranging from trees with eyes to owl like creatures emerging from darkly recesses. An innocence and calm pervades Barnesโ work. The strange comes from the quiet of sleep rather than from the violence of the sinister. The Nocturneโs realm is quiet calm. Associative, strange, and beyond waking cognition, this world is a fog of poetic play; a โdreamedโ imaginary of creatures, and scenarios, entirely of the artistโs imagining. An unfettered childlike delight emerges from these scenes.
From a world of extended metaphor and gentle strangeness, Barnes captures our imaginations and depletes our adult resistance to fantastical possibility. The artistโs work is informed by the legend and magic of folklore; an influence apparent in this childlike imaginary of gentle, foggy, creatures in half waking dream states.
Take a sneak peek at Paul Barnes' new works for โNocturneโ here:
www.flickr.com/photos/thinkspace/sets/72157630180325314/
Artist Website: www.paul-barnes.com
Early look at one of Sean Mahan's new works - showing this August in our office area
ON VIEW IN OUR OFFICE AREA:
New works from Sean Mahan
Sean Mahan is a social realist figurative painter who works with graphite and acrylic washes on wood to depict a sense of wonder about innate human sweetness.
Sean has enjoyed creating cover artwork for the bands: Twelve Hour Turn, Floor, Daitro, Dauntless Elite, Jets vs. Sharks, Planes Mistaken For Stars, Beat Buttons, North Lincoln, Fires, Del Cielo, The Gifthorse, Mouthbreather, Senders, Little League, Back Pocket, Small Talk, Solid Pony, Laura Minor, Verde, Kids on Bikes, and more.
Artist Website: www.seanmahanart.com
Brett Amory & Adam Caldwell'Dirty LaundryโPlus in our project room: Paul Barnes'Nocturne'Plus in our office area: New works from Sean MahanReception with the artists:Sat., August 4th 5-9PM Exhibitions on view: August 4th โ August 25th Take a sneak peek at Amory and Caldwell's new works for 'Dirty Laundryโ here:www.flickr.com/photos/thinkspace/sets/72157629978563424/ Thinkspace is pleased to present Dirty Laundry, an exhibition of new work by painters Brett Amory and Adam Caldwell. Amory and Caldwell each mobilize their unique representational strategies to invoke the modern day disconnect between time and space, self and other, and present and past. Amoryโs atmospheric preoccupation with memory, the moment, and nostalgia, is dynamically in contrast to Caldwellโs abrupt composites and recombinations of imagery, from sources spanning mass media to antiquity. Both artists approach their medium as a means of problematizing temporal identity, and the social experience, by exposing the nitty gritty polarities and paradigm shifts of an increasingly fractured reality of the self. Early look at one of Brett Amory's new oil paintings for 'Dirty Laundry' opening August 4th at ThinkspaceBrett AmoryBrett Amoryโs new body of work is a continuation of the artistโs acclaimed series Waiting, a series in which the artist captured his subjects in varying states of suspension and anticipation: waiting for the completion of an unseen event and caught in the standstill of a moment. Amoryโs work relies on photographic media as a means of capturing and documenting the every day subject matter with which he is concerned. He translates these photographic observations into paintings which seek to capture the immediacy of the moment. The artist uses photography as the primary point of departure in his process, and uses it as a social tool of observation to capture the world around him. He reduces these images to their most striking and elemental parts compositionally, and attempts to convey the fleeting quality of these moments through a painterly and impressionistic treatment of the photograph. This new body of work, however, conveys a sense of spontaneity and immediacy new to the artistโs practice. In Amoryโs earlier work, the preparatory process was deliberately staged and set in order to conform to the artistโs predetermined narrative and aesthetic vision for the painting. Now that the photograph has become an increasingly mobile and socially voyeuristic tool, with new applications such as instagram on the mobile phone, the moment seems less mediated by the staging of process. Amory is free to capture actual moments in the lives of others in passing with this technology, spontaneously, and organically. This technological filter functions as a conduit for the experiences the artist invokes in paint. The end result is a body of imagery that authentically captures the artistโs real time observation of his subjects, and their daily experiences and encounters. Brett Amory strives to convey his observation of the world around him through work that invokes its passing and transience. The daily routine of the artistโs life, and his observation of the life of others, is central to his process. The work captures a human point of exchange in the creation and inception of the image. Artist website: www.brettamory.com Early look at one of Adam Caldwell's new oil paintings for 'Dirty Laundry' opening August 4th at Thinkspace Adam CaldwellAdam Caldwellโs background is variegated, a multiplicity clearly evidenced in the artistโs work. The artistโs interest in comics, and ultimately narrative based graphic media, coupled by a highly developed technical acuity for figuration and spatial construction, results in a distinctly unique and recognizable style of painting: a style that is deeply imbricated in, but ultimately subversive of, the communicative shorthands of a variety of visual media. The artist is deftly able to invoke not only the formal properties of those languages, but the affective tone and mood of them as well. Caldwellโs work is informed by an observation and collusive synthesis of these visual media and their corresponding affects. The work presents a patchwork of visual multiplicities and polarized sensibilities. The surfaces are fraught, and frenetic, recombinations of the contemporary experience as observed by Caldwell: an experience in which the self is split and colonized by a competing network of forces. Formally the work speaks to this freneticism and fracture, combining a collage of styles and influences spanning everything from illustration, photorealism, and classical figuration, to the bombast of advertising and consumer culture media. The artist combines pop cultural imagery with post-apocalyptic images of destruction, and suggestions of advertising with images of warfare. Distinctly dystopian, the self is untenably situated in the midst of these rupturing forces as a complex and fractured entity. The โselfโ in Adam Caldwellโs work is subject to the ravages of an age where pop culture and mass destruction seem oddly at home together in the same image. Caldwell conveys the paradoxical nature of the contemporary psyche: a terrain of unreconciled impulses, libidinal urges, and conflicting imaginaries. Caldwellโs imagery is complex - a sort of social architectonics. Meaning becomes a process, self- consciously crafted by the associative juxtapositions laid out for us by the artist. A common thread in this work is its intentional ambivalence and recombination, the viewer is left feeling the pull of unreconciled subjects and themes, and is unable to reductively ascribe a singular meaning to them. Aesthetically seductive and visceral, and consummately executed, the paintings are captivating and unrelenting. We are caught in their grasps and actively participate in their meaning. Artist website: www.adamhuntercaldwell.com ON VIEW IN OUR PROJECT ROOM:Paul Barnes โNocturneโNocturne features new work by Scottish artist Paul Barnes. This body of work is whimsical, and delights in the suggestion of the fantastic and the surreal. The childlike creatures from Barnesโ Nocturne seem to exist in a fugue state, dreamy and veiled, dissociated and wandering. Just as the exhibitionโs title suggests, Barnesโ work is shrouded in this twilight haze of the outrรฉ, and the sleepy otherworldliness of the dream state. These pieces are glimpses into a limitless fantasy of legend, dream, and play. Much in keeping with the symbolist tradition, but reinvigorated by a contemporary illustrative aesthetic, the work is symbolically suggestive and resists literal meanings. The dream stateโs associative work is evident in the host of characters the pieces present, ranging from trees with eyes to owl like creatures emerging from darkly recesses. An innocence and calm pervades Barnesโ work. The strange comes from the quiet of sleep rather than from the violence of the sinister. The Nocturneโs realm is quiet calm. Associative, strange, and beyond waking cognition, this world is a fog of poetic play; a โdreamedโ imaginary of creatures, and scenarios, entirely of the artistโs imagining. An unfettered childlike delight emerges from these scenes. From a world of extended metaphor and gentle strangeness, Barnes captures our imaginations and depletes our adult resistance to fantastical possibility. The artistโs work is informed by the legend and magic of folklore; an influence apparent in this childlike imaginary of gentle, foggy, creatures in half waking dream states. Take a sneak peek at Paul Barnes' new works for โNocturneโ here:www.flickr.com/photos/thinkspace/sets/72157630180325314/ Artist Website: www.paul-barnes.com Early look at one of Sean Mahan's new works - showing this August in our office area ON VIEW IN OUR OFFICE AREA:New works from Sean MahanSean Mahan is a social realist figurative painter who works with graphite and acrylic washes on wood to depict a sense of wonder about innate human sweetness. Sean has enjoyed creating cover artwork for the bands: Twelve Hour Turn, Floor, Daitro, Dauntless Elite, Jets vs. Sharks, Planes Mistaken For Stars, Beat Buttons, North Lincoln, Fires, Del Cielo, The Gifthorse, Mouthbreather, Senders, Little League, Back Pocket, Small Talk, Solid Pony, Laura Minor, Verde, Kids on Bikes, and more. Artist Website: www.seanmahanart.com
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Brett Amory & Adam Caldwell @ Thinkspace (Aug. 4), by Thinkspace on Jul 22, 2012 17:33:00 GMT 1, Good eye there!
Good eye there!
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Brett Amory & Adam Caldwell @ Thinkspace (Aug. 4), by tobaum on Jul 29, 2012 3:17:08 GMT 1, Would love to see the pdf of Brett's new works.
Would love to see the pdf of Brett's new works.
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Brett Amory & Adam Caldwell @ Thinkspace (Aug. 4), by Thinkspace on Jul 31, 2012 6:08:16 GMT 1, Would love to see the pdf of Brett's new works.
Hi there Tobaum - shoot me a mail to contact(at)thinkspacegallery(dot)com and I will get you the preview once ready this Wednesday early AM PST.
Thank you.
Would love to see the pdf of Brett's new works. Hi there Tobaum - shoot me a mail to contact(at)thinkspacegallery(dot)com and I will get you the preview once ready this Wednesday early AM PST. Thank you. |
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Brett Amory & Adam Caldwell @ Thinkspace (Aug. 4), by Thinkspace on Jul 31, 2012 6:08:53 GMT 1, 
Juxtapoz recently caught up with Bay Area artist Adam Caldwell as he laid the final touches to his new oil paintings for โDirty Laundryโ set to open this Sat, August 4th at Thinkspace in the Culver City Arts District.
Read the full Juxtapoz interview with Adam Caldwell here:
www.juxtapoz.com/Features/back-talk-a-conversation-with-adam-caldwell
Inside Adam Caldwell's SF studio as he prepares for 'Dirty Laundry' opening Aug. 4th at Thinkspace - photo by Shaun Roberts
โAn avid reader of philosophy, San Francisco-based painter Adam Caldwell is currently wrapping up a new series of paintings that visualize disaster. Though they depict literal explosions, war scenes and other maladies, the works allude to disasters of the metaphysical sort. For this series, Caldwell took an interest in Western cultureโs conception of the mind and the body as two separate entities, painting the interiors of mental hospitals with a pastiche of pop culture artifacts and historical tidbits. The violent, busy works point to what the artist believes is a chaos that results from the artificial partition our culture creates in the human identity.โ โ HiFructose.com
Check out their full studio visit here:
hifructose.com/2012/07/30/studio-visit-with-adam-caldwell/
Juxtapoz recently caught up with Bay Area artist Adam Caldwell as he laid the final touches to his new oil paintings for โDirty Laundryโ set to open this Sat, August 4th at Thinkspace in the Culver City Arts District. Read the full Juxtapoz interview with Adam Caldwell here: www.juxtapoz.com/Features/back-talk-a-conversation-with-adam-caldwellInside Adam Caldwell's SF studio as he prepares for 'Dirty Laundry' opening Aug. 4th at Thinkspace - photo by Shaun RobertsโAn avid reader of philosophy, San Francisco-based painter Adam Caldwell is currently wrapping up a new series of paintings that visualize disaster. Though they depict literal explosions, war scenes and other maladies, the works allude to disasters of the metaphysical sort. For this series, Caldwell took an interest in Western cultureโs conception of the mind and the body as two separate entities, painting the interiors of mental hospitals with a pastiche of pop culture artifacts and historical tidbits. The violent, busy works point to what the artist believes is a chaos that results from the artificial partition our culture creates in the human identity.โ โ HiFructose.com Check out their full studio visit here: hifructose.com/2012/07/30/studio-visit-with-adam-caldwell/ |
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Brett Amory & Adam Caldwell @ Thinkspace (Aug. 4), by Thinkspace on Jul 31, 2012 18:02:04 GMT 1, 
Juxtapoz also were able to pin Brett Amory down for a short interview as he wrapped things up on his end for 'Dirty Laundry' that opens this Sat, Aug. 4th at Thinkspace.
Read the full Juxtapoz interview with Amory here:
www.juxtapoz.com/Features/back-talk-a-conversation-with-brett-amory
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Brett Amory & Adam Caldwell @ Thinkspace (Aug. 4), by Thinkspace on Aug 4, 2012 19:13:38 GMT 1, 
We're excited to be publishing two new print editions for the opening of 'Dirty Laundry' which brings together the works of Bay Area artists Brett Amory and Adam Caldwell.
Brett Amory has really added a ton of hand embellishing to each print with both acrylic and graphite creating truly unique works of art. While each is part of an overall edition of 10, each one has its own unique voice thanks to Brett's numerous embellishments.
Brett Amory
'Waiting #145'
Edition of 10 prints
Hand embellished with acrylic and graphite by the artist + also signed and numbered
24x24" paper size with 20x20" image area
Giclee print on Moab Entrada 300 gsm Archival Cotton Rag Paper is 300 gsm Archival Cotton Rag with Epson UltraChrome HDR inks
$200 each
Adam Caldwell has gone in and added all sorts of flourishes of color and addโl details to each print with both acrylic and graphite creating truly unique works of art. While each is part of an overall edition of 10, each one has its own unique voice thanks to Adamโs added touches.
Adam Caldwell
'Science of the Mind'
Edition of 10 prints
Hand embellished with acrylic and graphite by the artist + also signed and numbered
20x30" paper size with 18x27.25" image area
Giclee print on Moab Entrada 300 gsm Archival Cotton Rag Paper is 300 gsm Archival Cotton Rag with Epson UltraChrome HDR inks
$200 each
Both editions will be released this evening during the opening of 'Dirty Laundry' from 5 to 9PM. If you are interested in either print and can not make the opening, please send us an email to contact(at)thinkspacegallery(dot)com and we will follow up this coming Monday to arrange details with you.
FULL SHOW PREVIEW HERE: thinkspacegallery.com/works/?exhibit=171&p=BAPS12
We're excited to be publishing two new print editions for the opening of 'Dirty Laundry' which brings together the works of Bay Area artists Brett Amory and Adam Caldwell. Brett Amory has really added a ton of hand embellishing to each print with both acrylic and graphite creating truly unique works of art. While each is part of an overall edition of 10, each one has its own unique voice thanks to Brett's numerous embellishments. Brett Amory 'Waiting #145' Edition of 10 prints Hand embellished with acrylic and graphite by the artist + also signed and numbered 24x24" paper size with 20x20" image area Giclee print on Moab Entrada 300 gsm Archival Cotton Rag Paper is 300 gsm Archival Cotton Rag with Epson UltraChrome HDR inks $200 each Adam Caldwell has gone in and added all sorts of flourishes of color and addโl details to each print with both acrylic and graphite creating truly unique works of art. While each is part of an overall edition of 10, each one has its own unique voice thanks to Adamโs added touches. Adam Caldwell 'Science of the Mind' Edition of 10 prints Hand embellished with acrylic and graphite by the artist + also signed and numbered 20x30" paper size with 18x27.25" image area Giclee print on Moab Entrada 300 gsm Archival Cotton Rag Paper is 300 gsm Archival Cotton Rag with Epson UltraChrome HDR inks $200 each Both editions will be released this evening during the opening of 'Dirty Laundry' from 5 to 9PM. If you are interested in either print and can not make the opening, please send us an email to contact(at)thinkspacegallery(dot)com and we will follow up this coming Monday to arrange details with you. FULL SHOW PREVIEW HERE: thinkspacegallery.com/works/?exhibit=171&p=BAPS12 |
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Brett Amory & Adam Caldwell @ Thinkspace (Aug. 4), by The Origin on Aug 4, 2012 19:30:30 GMT 1, Very nice Amory that
Very nice Amory that
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