Iconic
Barry Whistler Gallery is proud to present, ICONIC, a group exhibition featuring works by Jonathan Cross, Linnea Glatt, Sam Gummelt, Luke Harnden, Bob Jackson, Otis Jones, Ellsworth Kelly, Matt Kleberg, Lawrence Lee, Alicia McCarthy, David McGee, Claes Oldenburg, Tom Orr, Richard Serra, Allison V. Smith, and Robert Wilhite. Pieces included in this exhibition will focus on seminal imagery from these epochal artists.
ICONIC will showcase a 30-panel David McGee piece on the gallery鈥檚 two largest walls spanning nearly 68 feet. Felicia Johnson describes, 鈥淏lack Paintings from a Black man living in America. Black life, Black politics, Black love. Most of the pieces in this show come from McGee's ongoing series Urban Dread, white and black treatises on the stark realities of life. The paintings themselves consist of oil, wax and sand on burlap. Their rough, gritty texture represents graffiti, white flight and (sub)urban angst. Street life, nappy hair, the systemic condemnation of technology. McGee plays in this role the conductor of a ghetto opera using modernist tropes. He places each painting side by side, forcing the audience to move through the series, experiencing these images as chapters in a book.鈥�
Jonathan Cross will feature four new wall hung stoneware works which are wood fired in his desert kiln outside of Joshua Tree, California. Cross explains, 鈥淐lay is an important material for me because of its transformative potential. It can be open, compressed, wet, hard, even crystalized. Sedimentary clay is derived from the decomposition of stone, by adding water it is transformed into a malleable material open to many actions. I use the malleable clay and start each piece by compressing it into a solid mass. From this mass of semi-wet clay, a form is slowly excavated, carved, discovered.鈥�
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Barry Whistler Gallery is proud to present, ICONIC, a group exhibition featuring works by Jonathan Cross, Linnea Glatt, Sam Gummelt, Luke Harnden, Bob Jackson, Otis Jones, Ellsworth Kelly, Matt Kleberg, Lawrence Lee, Alicia McCarthy, David McGee, Claes Oldenburg, Tom Orr, Richard Serra, Allison V. Smith, and Robert Wilhite. Pieces included in this exhibition will focus on seminal imagery from these epochal artists.
ICONIC will showcase a 30-panel David McGee piece on the gallery鈥檚 two largest walls spanning nearly 68 feet. Felicia Johnson describes, 鈥淏lack Paintings from a Black man living in America. Black life, Black politics, Black love. Most of the pieces in this show come from McGee's ongoing series Urban Dread, white and black treatises on the stark realities of life. The paintings themselves consist of oil, wax and sand on burlap. Their rough, gritty texture represents graffiti, white flight and (sub)urban angst. Street life, nappy hair, the systemic condemnation of technology. McGee plays in this role the conductor of a ghetto opera using modernist tropes. He places each painting side by side, forcing the audience to move through the series, experiencing these images as chapters in a book.鈥�
Jonathan Cross will feature four new wall hung stoneware works which are wood fired in his desert kiln outside of Joshua Tree, California. Cross explains, 鈥淐lay is an important material for me because of its transformative potential. It can be open, compressed, wet, hard, even crystalized. Sedimentary clay is derived from the decomposition of stone, by adding water it is transformed into a malleable material open to many actions. I use the malleable clay and start each piece by compressing it into a solid mass. From this mass of semi-wet clay, a form is slowly excavated, carved, discovered.鈥�
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