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BUCKET RIDER GALLERY opens the fall season with Enter Coordinates Here, a group show of new painting, as well as a new photographic work by Jason Lazarus in our project room.
Chicago, IL, September 9, 2005 – Bucket Rider welcomes the new fall season with an exhibition of new painting by Jacques de Beaufort, Van Hanos, Dan Kopp, and Hilary Wilder. Running concurrently, in our project room is And Then, I Finally Remembered., a new photographic installation by Jason Lazarus. The show opens Friday, September 9th with an artist’s reception from 6 to 9pm, and continues through October 8th.
Enter Coordinates Here examines how contemporary painting is indebted to the limitations of landscape, both public and personal, interior and exterior. It explores Cartesian anxiety— the lack of ontological certainty— as it manifests itself in the visual spectrum. Each of the artists collected in the show is aware of the way their existence in time and space is always a precarious, compromised relationship, and they address this experience in different ways, always longing to reduce the gap between themselves and the world at large.
Jacques de Beaufort’s (Los Angeles) works are influenced by Romantic and Surrealist painting, combining beauty and its eclipse, pure elation and its terminus. De Beaufort has recently had solo shows at Black Dragon Society in L.A. and Julia Friedman in New York. Van Hanos’ (Brooklyn) richly-detailed paintings explore nature, beauty and fantasy while acknowledging the brink of catastrophe that is always pending in the modern world. He has been in recent shows at Oliver Kamm and Priska C. Juschka in New York. Dan Kopp (Brooklyn) creates large-scale post-apocalyptic landscapes rendered in bright, electric colors that are simultaneously critical of the world we are preoccupied with and hopeful of all of its possible variations. He has had work in recent shows at Feigen Contemporary and Gorney Bravin & Lee, and is currently in the PS1 Greater New York survey. Hilary Wilder’s (Houston) new series of micro-historical paintings details the time her autistic father met Mick Jagger in Barbados in 1983. Using layers of graphite, crayon and acrylic, Wilder’s narrative paintings retell her father’s story in abstract images that bring form and content together succinctly. Having recently completed the prestigious CORE program, Wilder has an upcoming museum show at the Atlanta Center for Contemporary Art
...And Then Finally, I Remembered. refers to an observation by Susan Sontag that our history is mediated through iconic photographs. Visiting the recently emptied grave of Emmett Till hours after his body was exhumed in May 2005, Jason Lazarus documented this charged space, illuminating the intersection of the Till legacy with the personal encounter and providing an opportunity for personal authorship within this particular, public history. The artist has produced one large-scale image of the emptied grave covered with unadorned plywood boards.