Recent Works

Hours: Thursday - Sunday 2-6p
 

OPENING RECEPTION Thursday, March 19th, 6-9pm
 

FREE and open to the public.

chashama is pleased to announce an exhibition of recent work by New York based painter/installation artist Caleb Nussear. Nussear examines the natural landscape through a framework of formal abstraction. Nussear interweaves historical ideas from visual art and scientific thought: two realms that rarely seem to coexist. He is fascinated with the seemingly impossible higher dimensional spaces of contemporary theoretical physics’ string theory and supersymmetry, as much as with the paleontological earth-building described in the most ancient chapters of our planetary past. Nussear is constantly asking questions about the hidden structure and material of space; using abstract expressionism's gestural extravagances and the cool crystalline structures of the minimalists to think a cosmology through physical material.

 

The artist's working process is involved with creating painted and drawn surfaces that wrap around walls, are in corners, or are fallen to the floor. To that effect he uses both painting and installation to create panoramic, virtual landscape piles and filigreed, folded surfaces that reside in the slippery transitional spaces between 2 and 3 dimensions, 3 and 4 dimensions, and the impossible spaces of higher dimensional orders.