Vija Celmins
Cirrus Gallery to show selection of prints at UNTITLED online, including work by Vija Celmins, Fred Eversley, Joe Goode, Ed Ruscha, Barbara T. Smith, and Jonas Wood.
UNTITLED, ART online opens on Friday, July 31, at 11 am, and runs through Sunday, August 2, 11:59 pm EST. VIP preview hours begin Thursday, July 30 at 11 am EST.
Cirrus is pleased to present 6 artists—Vija Celmins, Fred Eversley, Joe Goode, Ed Ruscha, Barbara T. Smith, and Jonas Wood. The works on view concern a variety of vistas—through hotel curtains improbably blocked by the icy impasto of a blue milk bottle (Joe Goode), a starry atmosphere (Vija Celmins), improbable vistas of closely-held majestic mountainous views enclosed in domestic flower pots (Jonas Wood), and the ineffable, inevitable decisiveness and possibility at the precipice or frontier—the word “IF” as it sits on an inky, blue-black horizon (Ed Ruscha).
The artists included all engage with the photographic—optical or binary. Fred Everlsey’s parabolic lens is here a visual instrument that captures, distorts, and colors the street outside his studio. The title Red Dwarf refers to the most common type of star in the galaxy, where low surface temperature implies the possibility of life-sustaining planets like our own.
Barbara T. Smith’s use of optical sensors in a flatbed scanner captures the mundane and essential mineralogical and vegetal material from which we draw vitality. These flattened vistas (Celmins’ Strata creates a similar sense of close observation, albeit of impossibly distant objects) press the viewer close against the image field.
There’s a peculiar kind of patois, like Okie jargon. People have a funny way of speaking, almost like using bad English, double negatives like, “I can’t find my keys nowhere.” . . . Yes, they were incorrect, but they had a punch to them.
—Ed Ruscha
Gagosian is pleased to present recent paintings by Ed Ruscha online for galleryplatform.la. The works are currently featured in the solo exhibition Drum Skins at the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, Texas. Due to the ongoing health crisis, the museum is currently closed.
