De-Coherent Histories
De-Coherent Histories
by Peter Gregorio & Austin Shull
October 21 – November 6, 2010
chashama @ +aRt
+aRt, 540 West 28th Street
NYC, NY 10001 | between 10th and 11th Avenues
chashama and +aRt are pleased to present, De-coherent Histories, an exhibition by Peter Gregorio and Austin Shull, which will include photography, video, painting, and sculpture. Historical and futurist ideas merge to confront the viewer in the present, leaving mysterious questions unanswered and perpetuated. Both Gregorio and Shull inform their work with critical approaches to deconstructing methodologies in philosophy and science, cinema and material.
De-Coherent Histories' Peter Gregorio’s recent project SIN (Singularity Is Near) refers to the scientific concept of “The Singularity” — the point when technology and human intelligence merge — where technologically designed intelligence surpasses the biological. In SIN, a large-scale video projection, an unidentified protagonist sprays graffiti across a background of shifting images pointing to a futurist’s scenario, apocalyptic or utopian. With painting, Gregorio collapses three-dimensional space into a flattened Reticle of vaguely navigable territory, referencing computer manipulation and theories in cosmology to map the nuances of a dystopian landscape.
In Austin Shull’s "Reconciliation," an excavation launches a multi-media installation exploring alternative histories. In the piece, a video presents multiple mini- or localized narratives that unfold non-sequentially during the excavation of an 18th century stone-lined privy located in the backyard of a former tenement building in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. The video reveals the collective investigations, interactions, and fantasies of its participants. Shown in tandem, are artifacts-turned-sculptures discovered during the excavation. With Reconstitutions, a series of large format color images, the objects are documented as engaged in a play of fantasy and fetishism. "Reconciliation" seeks to explore the psychological and personal implications of history as a dialectical process that embodies past, present and future.
Peter Gregorio is a New York based artist working in large-scale painting, print, video, and installation. He received a BA from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 2004, and an MFA from the School of Visual Arts in 2007. He is the recipient of a Joan Mitchell Foundation Award. Peter Gregorio’s art has been exhibited nationally and internationally. Venues include Real Art Ways, The CUE Art Foundation, Participant Inc., Repetti Gallery, Arthur Roger Project Space, Finesilver Gallery, Boots Contemporary Art Space, and Unimedia Modern, Genova, Italy. He is Editor-In-Chief of the artist’s journal, “VECTOR”, and was the director of the “La Lutta Project Space”, in Brooklyn.
Born in Washington DC, Austin Shull is a Brooklyn based artist working in Video, Performance, Sculpture and Installation. He received a BA from Bard College in 2001, an MFA from the School of Visual Arts in 2007, and participated in the Whitney Independent Study Program from 2007–2008. He attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, summer 2008. Shull has exhibited work nationally and internationally at venues including the International Print Center, Pratt Institute, Nurture Art, Exit Art, Cooper Union, Syracuse University and Socrates Sculpture Park in New York, The Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago, the ACC Gallery in Weimar and Halle 14 Gallery in Leipzig, Germany.
+aRt is a 13-story development located at 540 West 28th Street, featuring 91 artfully designed condominium residences, from studios to three bedrooms.
www.540W28.com
by Peter Gregorio & Austin Shull
October 21 – November 6, 2010
chashama @ +aRt
+aRt, 540 West 28th Street
NYC, NY 10001 | between 10th and 11th Avenues
chashama and +aRt are pleased to present, De-coherent Histories, an exhibition by Peter Gregorio and Austin Shull, which will include photography, video, painting, and sculpture. Historical and futurist ideas merge to confront the viewer in the present, leaving mysterious questions unanswered and perpetuated. Both Gregorio and Shull inform their work with critical approaches to deconstructing methodologies in philosophy and science, cinema and material.
De-Coherent Histories' Peter Gregorio’s recent project SIN (Singularity Is Near) refers to the scientific concept of “The Singularity” — the point when technology and human intelligence merge — where technologically designed intelligence surpasses the biological. In SIN, a large-scale video projection, an unidentified protagonist sprays graffiti across a background of shifting images pointing to a futurist’s scenario, apocalyptic or utopian. With painting, Gregorio collapses three-dimensional space into a flattened Reticle of vaguely navigable territory, referencing computer manipulation and theories in cosmology to map the nuances of a dystopian landscape.
In Austin Shull’s "Reconciliation," an excavation launches a multi-media installation exploring alternative histories. In the piece, a video presents multiple mini- or localized narratives that unfold non-sequentially during the excavation of an 18th century stone-lined privy located in the backyard of a former tenement building in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. The video reveals the collective investigations, interactions, and fantasies of its participants. Shown in tandem, are artifacts-turned-sculptures discovered during the excavation. With Reconstitutions, a series of large format color images, the objects are documented as engaged in a play of fantasy and fetishism. "Reconciliation" seeks to explore the psychological and personal implications of history as a dialectical process that embodies past, present and future.
Peter Gregorio is a New York based artist working in large-scale painting, print, video, and installation. He received a BA from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 2004, and an MFA from the School of Visual Arts in 2007. He is the recipient of a Joan Mitchell Foundation Award. Peter Gregorio’s art has been exhibited nationally and internationally. Venues include Real Art Ways, The CUE Art Foundation, Participant Inc., Repetti Gallery, Arthur Roger Project Space, Finesilver Gallery, Boots Contemporary Art Space, and Unimedia Modern, Genova, Italy. He is Editor-In-Chief of the artist’s journal, “VECTOR”, and was the director of the “La Lutta Project Space”, in Brooklyn.
Born in Washington DC, Austin Shull is a Brooklyn based artist working in Video, Performance, Sculpture and Installation. He received a BA from Bard College in 2001, an MFA from the School of Visual Arts in 2007, and participated in the Whitney Independent Study Program from 2007–2008. He attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, summer 2008. Shull has exhibited work nationally and internationally at venues including the International Print Center, Pratt Institute, Nurture Art, Exit Art, Cooper Union, Syracuse University and Socrates Sculpture Park in New York, The Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago, the ACC Gallery in Weimar and Halle 14 Gallery in Leipzig, Germany.
+aRt is a 13-story development located at 540 West 28th Street, featuring 91 artfully designed condominium residences, from studios to three bedrooms.
www.540W28.com
