Gute, Slepian, Syjuco at Catharine Clark Gallery April 10, 2010

Artists' Talk and Reception 4/10, 11am-2pm; exhibition runs 4/10-5/15/10

Catharine Clark Gallery announces concurrent solo exhibitions "The Corrections" by Charles Gute and "the phenomenology of painting" by John Slepian. The gallery is pleased to announce the representation of Stephanie Syjuco, whose projects will be introduced in the gallery's viewing room. The artists will be present for a discussion of the exhibitions on Saturday, April 10, at 11am, and a reception from noon to 2pm. The exhibitions run through May 15, 2010.

Charles Gute's exhibition "The Corrections" mines the overlapping terrain between his conceptual art practice and his day job as a freelance editor of art publications. In an ongoing series of works on paper, "Revisions and Queries", Gute takes publisher's proofs from art books and removes all content save for his own proofreader's notations, leaving abstract, colorful constellations of marks that resonate with their original subject matter in unpredictable and at times humorous ways. In a series of canvas wall works, Gute raises the philosophical stakes by exposing errors in texts that are not about art but are already works of art themselves, thus playfully questioning notions of authorship and whether existing artworks can or should be altered.

John Slepian's "the phenomenology of painting" is an expansion of his previous investigations of empathy and the way we form emotional connections to objects around us. This work considers the mysteries of physical presence and the way complex meaning is created through motion and abstract form. Using video projection mapping, Slepian recreates images of paintings that exemplify modernism, only to then break the modernist tenets that they embody.
In the Viewing Room, the gallery introduces the work of Stephanie Syjuco. Working primarily in sculpture and installation, she uses tactics of bootlegging, re-appropriation, and fictional fabrication to address issues of cultural biography, labor, and economic globalization.

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