Marty Walker Gallery presents: Spatial Shifts: Jay Shinn + Rupert Deese

by PegNews wire

Marty Walker Gallery presents Spatial Shifts, an exhibition of new work by Jay Shinn and Rupert Deese. Perceptions of space are warped and notions of man versus nature are implied in works that mimic natural properties yet assert a man-made quality by altering and taking control of light, shadow, and space.

Jay Shinn continues to blur the boundaries between drawing, painting and sculpture in his new installation work. Hollow shapes conceived of stainless steel rods and paint extend from the wall, mimicking line drawings and bending space as they fluctuate into three-dimensional structures. Paring down elements of material and imagery similar to minimalist artists such as Sol Lewitt and Donald Judd, Shinn exhibits an analytical approach to art-making and an inquisitive examination of spatial awareness.

Shinn, a graduate of the Kansas City Art Institute and former resident of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and the New York School of Visual arts, lives and works in Dallas and New York. His work is included in several corporate collections including Microsoft, Neiman Marcus Collection, W Hotels, and One Arts Plaza.

New York artist and former Chinati Foundation artist-in-residence, Rupert Deese draws inspiration from topography, and transforms nature to geometry with monochromatically painted triangular and arc-section tiles, to represent, in this body of work, the topography of the California landscape. Deese's topographical maps are transformed, displayed vertically they become akin to traditional painting. The three-dimensional surface references notions of bas-relief, while simultaneously conjuring broad mountainous ranges, man-made landscape design, minimalist sculpture, and computerized pixilation.

Rupert Deese received his M.F.A. and B.A. degrees from the University of California at Santa Barbara. Deese’s work has been exhibited at The American Academy of Sciences, New York; Art in Embassies Program, United States Department of State in South Korea; The Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas; New York State Museum, Albany; and in addition, his work is included in the permanent collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and the Nevada Museum of Art, Reno. The artist lives and works in New York.

Source: Marty Walker Gallery