THE SHADES – JEFFREY GIBSON AND JACKIE SACCOCCIO
2010-09-27The Shades by Jackie Saccoccio & Jeffrey Gibson, is the 1st time both artists are exhibiting together. Each artist uses their own dense visual language as muse and expands on it using subjective and improvisational strategies countered by more objective and decisive structuring of the overall gallery installation, accessing The Shades. The title lightly refers to Ovid’s Rome where the ghosts of the ancient Romans are referred to as shades of the dead, their physical description being immense and shapeless. Saccoccio and Gibson take this as a metaphorical starting point to consider contemporary abstraction. The works traverse the real and are fixed on the viewing moment. The paintings are real and of this world. Both artists take what is happening within the paintings to address the space, alter the space, re-inven t a space. Ab-Ex, Pattern & Decoration, Neo Geo and Op mix with Dadaist and Conceptual practises.
Exhibition runs through to October 9th, 2010
Samsøn
450 Harrison Ave. / 29 Thayer St
Boston
MA
02118
