The Pleasure of Unintended Consequences

March 14 through Summer 2020

Featuring Anderson Wrangle, Martin Amorous, and Pablo Gimenez Zapiola

Saturday, March 14, 2020

Opening Reception, 6 – 8 pm

End date TBA - we are keeping an eye on when it would be safe for a Reception, if possible.

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All artists have experienced the unpredictability of the creative process. After endless trial and error, suddenly there is an enlightened mistake and that opens up a totally novel vista.

Part of Anderson Wrangle’s recent work is a contemplation of the natural beauty of the Outer Banks, South Carolina. They are just slivers of land, continually shifting and reforming, but for millennia they have held their own against the violent sea. The light is soft, brilliant and otherworldly – illuminating the union of land and sea. Then the idyllic setting is shattered: another image, this one of a cluster of vacation high rises in lemonade colors, only partially occupied, are fighting for survival against a rising sea, lapping at their foundation. The focus has shifted to the looming catastrophe on the horizon.

Martin Amorous paints without brushes. A happy accident, perhaps, showed him the way to pour and ”print” paint and create landscapes that have an uncanny resemblance to photographic images. Yet they go far beyond photography, as the artist’s goal is to investigate and create archetypes of natural space. The compositional elements of horizontals, verticals, orthogonals and gradations of light are a dialogue between the natural and the cultural in the juxtaposition of geometric forms versus organic patterns.

Pablo Gimenez Zapiola is well known for his projections of text, pattern or videos onto the sides of buildings, silos or trees. His artistic practice, not as well known, includes a substantial body of work of still photography, usually in the format of a series. Two of them “Inner Atmospheres” and “Night Trees” are shown here. On his frequent night walks, he is observing nature in her nocturnal presentation, revealing secrets that remain hidden from the day time observer. As Pablo tells it, on one of these excursions, he happens to shine a flashlight into some trees and was astonished at what he saw. By isolating and focusing on a defined segment of nature and spotlighting it, a new perspective opened up: the “Night Tree” series.