Showing posts with label Eric Mack. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Eric Mack. Show all posts
Saturday, January 7, 2017
Saturday, September 12, 2015
LOS ANGELES: Eric Mack
Resurfaced + Restructured
September 12 - October 17, 2015
REGINALD INGRAHAM GALLERY
4710 West Adams Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA
Reginald Ingraham Gallery is pleased to present, Eric Mack, Resurfaced + Restructured. This will be Eric Mack’s first solo show at the Reginald Ingraham Gallery and the first solo exhibition in Los Angeles.
Eric Mack, who hails from Atlanta GA, creates engaging work by combining all the images that has mentally cultivated him from a young age. He has assembled a body of work that is multi layered, multi dimensional , and just magical to view. With Macks love of hip hop, architecture, geometry, symbols and shapes, texture; African American history, and European masters; Mack has subconsciously, but purposely, allowed his work to channel his passions and the experiences he’s had. From the kinetic energy of hip-hop culture to the hyper-exposure of symbols that we are now exposed to daily, to his travels and 4 year residency in Munich, Germany, in which he was paid a stipend to produce work while there; Eric Mack’s life journey finds its way into his work. The work that Eric Mack produces, many of them mix media collages on canvas, are journey filled works that will take you right to the threshold of fantasy, yet give you the feeling of deja vu or a sense of soothing remembrance. Mack’s work has been, at times, compared to Wassily Kandinsky because of his use of color, shapes and form. Mack has many influences, yet Kandinsky seems to be the one most noted, because he too had traveled to Munich. Kandinsky has been quoted to say, “Colour is a power which directly influences the soul,” Mack’s work are an extension of his soul.
Eric Mack has been included in many private collections, as well as major corporate collections in the states and throughout Europe. Most recently Eric Mack’s work was acquired by the The High Museum, Atlanta GA, for their permanent collection.
Friday, March 6, 2015
POST: Eric Mack
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| Eric Mack photographed in New York City by Christopher Gabello. February, 2015. |
Photos | Christopher Gabello
In 2012, artist Eric Mack displayed his work Honey Hollow during "Fore" (part of The Studio Museum in Harlem's ongoing exhibition series of emerging African American talent), challenging the idea that painting must be represented in a traditional, rectangular format. Mack's "painting," which was actually a blanket painted purple, hung from a wall and swayed in the breeze created by a metal fan sitting on the ground. Honey Hollow foreshadowed many works to come, all of which encompass the conceptual and performative subjectivity of ideas presented by the Maryland-born, New York-based artist.
This past Sunday, Mack's most recent work went on view alongside works by Brian Belott and Noam Rappaport at OHWOW in Los Angeles as part of the group show "Some Stew You Got Inside Your Plastic Bag, and You Always Organize The Parts So Close." Continuing his desire to expand, or perhaps nullify, the boundaries of traditional painting formats, Mack stitched together found, bought, and personal fabrics, frequently adding layers of paint, magazine images, and paper. The 27-year-old artist, who is now completing a residency at The Studio Museum, hangs his works throughout the gallery in a way that forces the audience to come face-to-face with and physically maneuver their way around. With his work Claudine, fabric hangs from a curtain rod, exposing the material's movement, allowing for a temporal understanding between viewer and object.
"It is alienating," the Cooper Union and recent Yale MFA program graduate says about the limiting nature of paintings on canvas. "There is a removal from considering painting as an object, which was a big challenge for me early on. I thought, ‘If painting is an object, then how does it speak?' I'm trying to get people to feel a closeness to painting."
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