Opening Friday 5/30, 5-8 pm
I am showing drawings, big and small, with Jessica Nissen at:
Assisted Living
@Untouchables
40 Liberty Street
Newburgh, NY
“Everywhere in nature one sees evidence of innate releasing mechanisms literally millions of years old, which have lain dormant through thousands of generations but retained their power undiminished.”
—J G Ballard, Drowned World
In “Speculative Geology” forms appear and disappear, colors oscillate between biological and toxic, and time and space collapse into each other. With an affinity in both formal and narrative concerns, the work of Jessica Nissen and Kevin Pyle depict phenomena both anxious and sublime —primordial and prophetic. Perhaps the fractures and gasps of a dying world or the elements of another being born, these are conjured landscapes with histories and potential energy seeking to awaken the power Ballard refers to — as both a reckoning and a catalyst.
