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DISSOLVING DIMENSION – SETH SCANTLEN – SOLO EXHIBITION

August 6th-21st 12pm-6pm Wednesday-Sunday

CHASHAMA 217 GALLERY
217 E. 42nd St. New York, NY 10017
(in between 2nd & 3rd Ave.)

press release: chashama is pleased to announce Dissolving Dimension, an exhibit at chashama 217 by Seth Scantlen. 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.

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wired: Tom Shannon’s paintings bustle with life — neon polymers suggest rampant vines, moist lips, and teeming coral reefs. But the multimedia artist generates these complex forms with a simple machine, a pendulum of his own design that swings over the canvas, releasing pigment from six radio-controlled paint guns. “The process is full of surprises,” the 62-year-old artist says. “The pendulum lets me step outside to observe nature as it produces layer after layer of detail.”

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CHINA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

zhou FAN: A series of my paintings is based on dreams that I had as a child of many many jellyfish floating in the sky, some of which fell to the ground on parachures and became mushrooms. These dreams had a strong impact on me, and I remember them vividly. Somehow I feel that it is easier to focus on dreams than reality. In one particular painting, there is a boy crying because he keeps things within him, is easily sad, and he refuses to face reality.

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victoria AUSTRAILIA

suckerPUNCH:describe your project

luke HALLAM : A series of paintings depicting the often oversized machinery, used in the the extraction of natural resources from the earth.

image: Wonder Wheel, airbrushed ink and acrylic on canvas

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oslo NORWAY

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

javier BARRIOS: “electric dome” is a project that very much relates to science fiction where i have thought of the human evolution and questioning its future existence on this planet. as good science fiction there is a bit of utopia in the project, but still it does not make it irrelevant as many of modern technological advances in the last years has been with the aim to prepare humankind for change of habitat in the near future, more specific in space.

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jennifer COATES’ vividly colored, metaphysical paintings utilize the conventions of landscape as an anchor for hallucinatory visions that reference the mind and the body simultaneously. expanses of sky or sea coalesce into pools of thought-like reflection; clouds of geometry warp into an ecstatic vortex; horizons fissure and swell like skin; and intricate vines tangle into knots of energized ganglia. coates contrasts an atmospheric radiance with meticulous detail, iconic directness with allusive abstraction. varied painterly approaches are positioned against each other to create a disjunctive but idealistic experience of place.

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a savage innocence emanates through the pen and ink illustrations of marcel dzama. bears, blood, girls and dismembered heads float through a stark child-like fantasy world of root beer browns and cranberry reds. his narratives are non-linear with characters weaving though his images, often dying and then coming back to life. dzama’s work is that of an adult fairy tale where reality is skewed and violence is expected.

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apostolos MITSIOS: yigal OZERI is an israeli painter that lives and works for the last twenty years in new york. inspired by the pre-raphaelites // artists from nineteenth century england who went out into nature and celebrated it // he has managed with his cinematic portraits to challenge perception and illusion. his latest exhibition at mike weiss gallery in new york is called desire for anima, as a tribute to carl jung’s concept of the unconscious or true inner self of an individual. his models, at the transitional age between youth and maturity, are vulnerable and at the same time real in an almost dreamlike way.

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