Dissolving Dimension
Dissolving Dimension
hallucinations and careful abstractions by Seth Scantlen
August 6 - 21, 2010
chashama 217
217 East 42nd Street
New York, NY
1 1/2 blocks east of Grand Central, btwn 2nd & 3rd Aves; 4,5,6,7 and shuttle train to Grand Central | M15, M101, M102, M103 to 42nd Street
seth@sethscantlen.com
www.sethscantlen.com
Opening Reception:
Saturday August 7, 6-9p
Hours: Wednesday - Sunday 12 - 6p
In Dissolving Dimension, Seth Scantlen uses paint as his medium to express the fluidity of identity. Representation and abstraction flow together, seamlessly intermingling, in a state of constant flux. He explores both the terror and joy that comes with identity's meltdown.
Growing up in a one stop light town in rural Indiana, art was access to a broader world. Art has always been a source of escape but for Scantlen, that escape was never fully realized and always questioned.
His images hover between hallucinations and careful abstractions. Scantlen achieves technical rigor while engaged in a visualization of intense subject breakdown, maintaining a constant tension between control and chaos. His work refers to ways in which technology can enable us to depict and edit our identities while also threatening to flatten them into ready made consumable self-caricatures.
Seth Scantlen received a BFA from the Columbus College of Art and Design in 2002 and a MFA from Columbia University in 2008. He has shown in numerous galleries, including RVCA Gallery in San Francisco, The Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, Fisher Landau Center for Art in New York and Meat Market Gallery in Washington, DC. He currently lives and works in New York City.
hallucinations and careful abstractions by Seth Scantlen
August 6 - 21, 2010
chashama 217
217 East 42nd Street
New York, NY
1 1/2 blocks east of Grand Central, btwn 2nd & 3rd Aves; 4,5,6,7 and shuttle train to Grand Central | M15, M101, M102, M103 to 42nd Street
seth@sethscantlen.com
www.sethscantlen.com
Opening Reception:
Saturday August 7, 6-9p
Hours: Wednesday - Sunday 12 - 6p
In Dissolving Dimension, Seth Scantlen uses paint as his medium to express the fluidity of identity. Representation and abstraction flow together, seamlessly intermingling, in a state of constant flux. He explores both the terror and joy that comes with identity's meltdown.
Growing up in a one stop light town in rural Indiana, art was access to a broader world. Art has always been a source of escape but for Scantlen, that escape was never fully realized and always questioned.
His images hover between hallucinations and careful abstractions. Scantlen achieves technical rigor while engaged in a visualization of intense subject breakdown, maintaining a constant tension between control and chaos. His work refers to ways in which technology can enable us to depict and edit our identities while also threatening to flatten them into ready made consumable self-caricatures.
Seth Scantlen received a BFA from the Columbus College of Art and Design in 2002 and a MFA from Columbia University in 2008. He has shown in numerous galleries, including RVCA Gallery in San Francisco, The Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, Fisher Landau Center for Art in New York and Meat Market Gallery in Washington, DC. He currently lives and works in New York City.
