Casey Vogt With their euphoric colors and pyschedelic compositions I create ornate, mandala-like compositions that serve as a backdrop for politically charged figurative scenes. The most recent paintings explore Americans’ relationships to drug use, the war on drugs, and the pharmaceutical industry. The backgrounds are composed of masses of layered dots of house paint in myriad colors, recalling a pharmacopoeia of pills. They act as a painterly and metaphysical contrast to the socio-political narratives presented by the figures. triagallerynyc.com
Rapture. House paint, collage, enviro-tex on panel, 24 in by 24 in.
Erwin Wurm “My work is about the drama of the pettiness of existence, whether one approaches it through philosophy or through a diet. In the end we always draw the short straw”. Clothing as a sculptural theme, the second skin, the protective shell, the outline, and also the filling out of a volume is of prime importance in Erwin Wurm’s complex work, which includes performance, video, photography, drawing and classical sculpture, in combination and interdependence. Time is a further important factor which he explores. Wurm understands the concept of sculpture as the pre-modern premise that sculpture is concerned with the alteration of mass and volume. – Hella Pohl, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris (F), Salzburg (A), 2013.
Suit (Desperate Philosophers), 2009. Acrylic, cloth, 48 cm by 20 cm by 12 cm. Photo: Studio Wurm.
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