Jonathan Parsons
dal 10/10/2003 al 15/11/2003
Segnalato da
10/10/2003
Jonathan Parsons
Kontainer Gallery, Los Angeles
Parsons recreates found marks and explores the three-dimensional illusory quality of the flat surface. His rendering of lines and markings lend them a significance which relies on our familiarity with visual language. What we see is informed by what we know, and painting can draw from this infinite possibility to go beyond its own surface.
Jonathan Parsons at Kontainer Gallery, Saturday October 11, 6-8 pm
Kontainer Gallery is pleased to present the first solo-exhibition within
the US of paintings by Jonathan Parsons. Based in London, Parsons has
shown extensively throughout the UK and Europe, recent exhibitions include
SENSATION, Royal Academy of Arts, London (1997), Hamburger Bahnhoff,
Berlin (1998), Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York (1999), Furniture, John
Hansard Gallery, Southampton (1999) and British Art Show 5, Hayward
Gallery.
Jonathan Parsons was born in Redhill, Surrey, in 1970, and studied at
Goldsmith College, London. Parsons recreates found marks and explores the
three-dimensional illusory quality of the flat surface. His rendering of
lines and markings lend them a significance which relies on our
familiarity with visual language. What we see is informed by what we know,
and painting can draw from this infinite possibility to go beyond its own
surface.
'Where should I have been on the evening of 29 October? Why, at the
opening party for the Turner Prize I hear you opine. But no, there was
something far more exciting happening that evening, namely the first
exhibition by Jonathan Parsons for three years, at Richard Salmon's.
Parsons' meditations on the modernist grid are superbly intelligent
investigations into the fundamental paradoxes of painting, its illusionism
and materiality, abstract space and imagistic connotation, history and
reconstruction. I would like to publicly put Parsons forward as a more
than deserving candidate for next year's Turner nomination - serious
contemporary art, unafraid to engage at close quarters with the loaded
subject of painting - and if he does make the list, then I know where I
will be that evening'. - Richard Dyer, Contemporary, Dec. 2002
We wish to thank Richard Salmon Gallery, London, for making this show
possible.
OPENING RECEPTION: Saturday, October 11, 2003, 6-8pm
GALLERY HOURS: 12 - 6 pm, Tue - Sat
VENUE: Kontainer Gallery
6130 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90048
Tel: 323 933 4746