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Roberts & Tilton is pleased to announce “And There Is an End” a group exhibition examining works iconoclastic to the present par of accustomed aesthetics. “And There Is an End” calls for a questioning of the contemporary turned conventional, instigating a search for a fiction in the idea.

In such a pursuit, one can only attempt to draw parallels to an inquiry that reflects life; to look into the mirror and see qualities of ourselves and our times. A search for poetic truths entails a search for art that not only has a dialogue with contemporary issues, but talks back to us. This exhibition brings together disparate voices to convene in a context spanning multiple generations and varied identities. With a range of works that acknowledges the individual via paintings and sculptural works with an unabashed display of the personal, the hand and the intuitive, implementing autonomous figuration and tactile expressions of materials that question the act of production and active image making.

Notions of the authentic are explored through imagistic work produced by divergent fissions and decay. Through an unencumbered idea-to-material action, a calculated “stream of consciousness” response is postured. Quoted quotidian relics find new regard, paintings appear breakable, color is consensual. Fiction and the absolute conflate in speculations of our own histories and immediacies.

In a scrimmage with trends that are over saturated with visual tricks, a shift in perception and anticipation of the unexpected and innate is constructed. The risks of visceral instincts and articulated vernaculars are at play to create images that are lively and impulsively archetypal. “And There Is an End” does not state or predict an ending, but boldly beckons for an end to provoke new beginnings.

…and the fault with most banalities is that they are not banal enough. Banality here is not infinite in its depth and consequence, but rests on a foundation of spirituality and aesthetics. - Asger Jorn

Derek Fordjour

Derek Fordjour
Contender, 2015
Terracotta clay, iron, bituminous coal and wood
23 x 13 x 13 in (58.42 x 33 x 33 cm)

Leon Benn

Leon Benn
Underwater with Red Stripe (Ah Yah Suh Nice), 2015
Oil, oil pastel, dyes, bleach, faux-batik, and  rabbit skin glue on hand-woven Moroccan fabric
38 x 36 in (96.52 x 91.44 cm)

Keith Boadwee & Club Paint

Keith Boadwee & Club Paint
Sleepwalker, 2014
Oil on canvas
24 x 20 in (60.96 x 50.8 cm)

Keith Boadwee & Club Paint

Keith Boadwee & Club Paint

After the Revolution, 2014
Oil on canvas
54 x 72 in (137.16 x 182.88 cm)

Alex Chaves

Alex Chaves
1969, 2015
Oil on canvas
36 x 44 in (91.44 x 111.76 cm)

Alex Chaves

Alex Chaves
N. Duran, 2015
Oil on canvas
40 x 48 in (101.6 x 121.92 cm)

Chris Johanson and Johanna Jackson

Chris Johanson and Johanna Jackson
Chair 1, 2015
Found wood, canvas, velvet appliqué, corded silk
35.5 x 17 x 19.5 in (90.17 x 43.18 x 49.53 cm)

Chris Johanson and Johanna Jackson

Chris Johanson and Johanna Jackson
Chair 1, 2015
Found wood, canvas, velvet appliqué, corded silk
35.5 x 17 x 19.5 in (90.17 x 43.18 x 49.53 cm)

Chris Johanson and Johanna Jackson

Chris Johanson and Johanna Jackson
Chair 2, 2015
Found wood, canvas, velvet appliqué, corded silk
38 x 17.5 x 23 in (96.52 x 44.45 x 58.42 cm)

Chris Johanson and Johanna Jackson

Chris Johanson and Johanna Jackson
Chair 2, 2015
Found wood, canvas, velvet appliqué, corded silk
38 x 17.5 x 23 in (96.52 x 44.45 x 58.42 cm)

Michael Dopp and Kelly Akashi

Michael Dopp and Kelly Akashi
Untitled 2 (Black, White, Green, Pink), 2015
Ceramic, wick and wax
15 x 5.5 x 5.25 in (38 x 13.97 x 13.33 cm)

Derek Fordjour

Derek Fordjour
Divine Approbation, 2015
Oil, acrylic, wax, newspaper and various fabrics
48 x 30 in (121.92 x 76.2 cm)

Derek Fordjour

Derek Fordjour
Two the Hard Way, 2015
Oil, acrylic, wax, newspaper and various fabrics
48 x 30 in (121.92 x 76.2 cm)

Michael Dopp and Kelly Akashi

Michael Dopp and Kelly Akashi
Untitled 1 (Black, White, Green, Pink), 2015
Ceramic, wick and wax
15 x 5.5 x 5.25 in (38 x 13.97 x 13.33 cm)

Michael Dopp and Kelly Akashi

Michael Dopp and Kelly Akashi
Untitled 3 (Black, White, Green, Pink), 2015
Ceramic, wick and wax
15 x 5.5 x 5.25 in (38 x 13.97 x 13.33 cm)

Michael Dopp and Kelly Akashi

Michael Dopp and Kelly Akashi
Installation View

Roger Herman

Roger Herman
Untitled, 2004
Stoneware
23 x 6 x 6 in (58.42 x 27.94 x 15.24 cm)

Roger Herman

Roger Herman
Untitled, 2008
Stoneware
8 x 11 x 11 in (20.32 x 27.92 x 15.24 cm)

Roger Herman

Roger Herman
Untitled, 2004
Stoneware
21 x 7 x 5 in (53.34 x 17.78 x 12.7 cm)

Roger Herman

Roger Herman
Untitled, 2004
Stoneware
9 x 9 x 6 in (22.86 x 22.86 x 15.24 cm)

Max Jansons

Max Jansons
Jessica Lange, 2013
Oil on linen
12 x 9 in (30.48 x 22.86 cm)

Max Jansons

Max Jansons
My Beautiful Apprentice, 2013

Oil on linen
18 x 15 in (45.72 x 38.1 cm)

Nathan Kitch

Nathan Kitch
Floral No. 11, 2015
Acrylic on canvas
48 x 32 in (121.92 x 81.28 cm)

Nathan Kitch

Nathan Kitch
Floral No. 12, 2015
Acrylic on canvas
48 x 32 in (121.92 x 81.28 cm)

Matt Lifson

Matt Lifson
My Sentiments Exactly, 2015
Oil and marker on canvas over panel
78 x 60 in (198.12 x 152.4 cm)

Matt Lifson

Matt Lifson
Zelda, 2015
Oil on canvas
23.5 x 21 in (59.69 x 53.34 cm)

Evan Nesbit

Evan Nesbit
Untitled (Cable Painting 1), 2015
Acrylic, plaster, aircraft cable, metal fillings, microscope, plastic fruit, scotch tape and aquasize bell
154 x 12 x 14 in (391.16 x 30.48 x 35.56 cm)

Evan Nesbit

Evan Nesbit
Untitled (Cable Painting 2), 2015
Acrylic, plaster, aircraft cable, metal fillings, ceramic tchotchke, ski, ping pong padel, coconut and vase
154 x 12 x 12 in (391.16 x 30.48 x 30.48 cm)

Daniel Rios Rodriguez

Daniel Rios Rodriguez
In Rainbows, 2015
Oil and acrylic on canvas with painted wood frame
9 x 11 in (22.86 x 27.94 cm)

Daniel Rios Rodriguez

Daniel Rios Rodriguez
Lilac Wine, 2014
Oil, flashe, and denim on canvas with cotton and linen frame
9 x 11 in (22.86 x 27.94 cm)

Daniel Rios Rodriguez

Daniel Rios Rodriguez
Soltero, 2014
Oil, flashe, denim and wood on canvas with cedar frame
9 x 11 in (22.86 x 27.94 cm)

Emily Sudd

Emily Sudd
Untitled Decorative Object #12, 2014
Collected ceramic objects, clay, glazes, fiberglass and epoxy resin
26 x 24 x 6 in (66 x 60.94 x 15.24 cm)

Emily Sudd

Emily Sudd
Untitled Decorative Object #13, 2014
Collected ceramic objects, clay, glazes, fiberglass and epoxy resin
26 x 22 x 2 in (66 x 55.88 x 5 cm)