Other Dates
900 Santa Fe Drive
Denver, CO 80204
Andrew will be present at the Gallery:
Opening reception: 4/12 5-9 PM
Collectors' Night: 4/19 5-9 pM
Conversation with the Artist: 4/21 2 PM
Sundays on Santa Fe: 4/27 1-4 PM
First Fridays on Santa Fe 5/3 5-9 PM
Closing Reception: 5/5 1-4 PM
Gallery hours: Thurs. 12-5, Fri. 12-9, Sat. 12-5, Sun. 1-4 PM
D'art Gallery: DartGallery.org
Contact Andrew: disappearance.project@gmail.com
https://schoolofdisappearance.com
STATEMENT
Andrew Marcus, a visual artist and dancer, is working on problems in late modern painting. These problems include the dialectical relationship between a painting as an object in real space — for instance, as an architectural presence in relationship to other object presences — and the traditional function of a painting as an image or depiction of an other reality within the frame and sometimes by implication extending beyond it, but with a less precise relationship to the space of exhibition.
The presence, or being of the paintings in this exhibition, is predicated on their capacity to reflect the subjectivity of the viewer engaging with them and with the space in which they are situated (the installation). Compositional choices, such as the centrality, symmetry and/or asymmetry of a particular image or set of images, characteristics of color, drawing, and materials, are effective to the degree that the viewer becomes aware of what lies between their own position, physically, sensorially, emotionally and intellectually, and the object position of the painting or set of paintings, and the space of exhibition.
For Marcus, success in this context is related to the installation as undisturbed surface for the reflection of the viewer/participant’s own subjectivity, devoid of elements that might distract from the encounter. This encounter is triadic; the object mediates the knowing of both maker and viewer. Critical to this encounter is the fact of the void of elements: what is left out and remains unpainted, unseen, and unspoken is, precisely, the subject.
