Open
Channels
July 19 - August 9, 2014
Opening reception: Saturday, July 19, 2014,
6-9pm
Project Room
6009 Washington Boulevard
Culver City, CA
From thinkspacegallery.com:
Thinkspace
is pleased to exhibit Open Channels
featuring new works by highly accomplished fine artist, illustrator, and street
artist Yis Goodwin, aka Nosego.
Imaginatively
beautiful and strangely grotesque, the Philadelphia based artist captures a myriad of conflicting
impulses in a single piece.
His larger
than life creations tend to reveal the smallness of their individual parts upon
closer inspection. Imposingly excessive, and saturated with individual references,
each piece presents a wealth of composited details and a host of minutiae to
fascinate and entangle the viewer in endless readings.
Nosego
combines the animal with the suggestion of the human, and the illustrative with
the realistic, to create beautifully disorienting hybrids. His works defy
categorization, both stylistically and in terms of content. They are polymorphous
and in an unrelenting state of flux and metamorphosis: a dynamic perpetuity of
becoming and undoing, as though they were living things.
Nosego
presents us with worlds that exist unto themselves, as illogical as they are
seductive and transportive. The spontaneity of the artist’s huge imagination is
at the fore of his practice. His works convey this feeling of explosive energy,
as though looking into them provided the viewer with a direct conduit to the
origins of their genius. With endless associative recombinations, and a
genuinely uncensored creativity and penchant for experiment, the artist opens
vistas unto worlds of unimaginable vastness, possibility, and intricacy.
Nosego
will be creating a site specific installation in the Thinkspace project room for
Open Channels, and completing a
public mural in Los Angeles in tandem with the exhibition.
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| Nosego photographed by Theo Constantinou. 2012. Image via paradigmmagazine.com. All rights reserved. |
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