ARTISTS
Collapsed Narratives
Dinner Gallery is proud to present Collapsed Narratives, a group exhibition featuring artists, Chris Hood, Laura Karetzky and Kelsey Shwetz, who use representational imagery through the lens of abstraction in order to break away from passive perspectives.
Within storytelling, a 鈥榗ollapsed narrative鈥� is a method that does not follow a straight chronological structure. Instead, it is non-linear and fragmented, often starting in the middle of the story and jumping around in time or even combining several various narratives together. This approach can reflect alternate realities and open up opportunities for new perspectives that traditional narratives cannot. The concept of collapsed narratives can also draw on the failing of dominant narratives and their instability, giving way to a palpable reality and revealing uncomfortable truths.
The artists in this exhibition have created new ways of examining, absorbing, and contextualizing engagement with imagery. Removing them from their expected environments, they shift significance and focus to provide a more captivating and thought-provoking experience. As multiple narratives and meanings collide on a singular pictorial plane, a third potential experience appears, allowing reality to be questioned, explored and developed.
Shifting between traditional landscapes, interior spaces, and surrealism, Kelsey Shwetz aims to create a world where punishment, desire and ecological anxieties unfold. Guided by a written Fable, her practice oscillates between text and imagery, real and imagined and past and future. Chris Hood physically challenges the notion of a singular surface by activating the use of both the front and back of his canvases. Deeply rooted in art historical understanding, Hood鈥檚 characters weave in and out painterly abstraction, investigating the space between new media, object-making and materiality. Taking moments from her daily life, Laura Karetzky鈥檚 paintings are an amalgamation of several stories into one composition. Her works layer various experiences that question how we interact with one another, the ideas of a presumed singular reality and possibility of multiple truths.
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Dinner Gallery is proud to present Collapsed Narratives, a group exhibition featuring artists, Chris Hood, Laura Karetzky and Kelsey Shwetz, who use representational imagery through the lens of abstraction in order to break away from passive perspectives.
Within storytelling, a 鈥榗ollapsed narrative鈥� is a method that does not follow a straight chronological structure. Instead, it is non-linear and fragmented, often starting in the middle of the story and jumping around in time or even combining several various narratives together. This approach can reflect alternate realities and open up opportunities for new perspectives that traditional narratives cannot. The concept of collapsed narratives can also draw on the failing of dominant narratives and their instability, giving way to a palpable reality and revealing uncomfortable truths.
The artists in this exhibition have created new ways of examining, absorbing, and contextualizing engagement with imagery. Removing them from their expected environments, they shift significance and focus to provide a more captivating and thought-provoking experience. As multiple narratives and meanings collide on a singular pictorial plane, a third potential experience appears, allowing reality to be questioned, explored and developed.
Shifting between traditional landscapes, interior spaces, and surrealism, Kelsey Shwetz aims to create a world where punishment, desire and ecological anxieties unfold. Guided by a written Fable, her practice oscillates between text and imagery, real and imagined and past and future. Chris Hood physically challenges the notion of a singular surface by activating the use of both the front and back of his canvases. Deeply rooted in art historical understanding, Hood鈥檚 characters weave in and out painterly abstraction, investigating the space between new media, object-making and materiality. Taking moments from her daily life, Laura Karetzky鈥檚 paintings are an amalgamation of several stories into one composition. Her works layer various experiences that question how we interact with one another, the ideas of a presumed singular reality and possibility of multiple truths.
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