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Darja Bajagić, Ethan Cook, Ayan Farah, Egan Frantz, Ross Iannatti, Dean Levin, Israel Lund, Virginia Overton, Amanda Ross-Ho, Jack Siegel, Marianne Vitale

The notion of infinity is a modern concept. For centuries, time, volume and space were only conceptualized by means of physical units, not as abstract entities. Ideas of the limitless were limited to ideas regulated by the confines of known objects. The perception of infinitude (the state or quality of being infinite or having no limits) fosters the pursuit of possibility, probability, the contingent and systems of chance.

Chance is a credo of opportunity and ultimatum. The process of chance is one that leaves its heir willingly vulnerable and susceptible to failure. It activates infinite expectations for the possible and impossible; it empowers the fluke and fates the fault. Chance is something that can be both taken and given.

What happens when the redundant collapses with a rare occurrence?

The infinite endows the incidental moment to transform a thing into a something, the potential to discover a dormant intimacy hidden in the anonymity of the conventional. Duchamp referred to such discoveries as “rendezvous.” This is not an endeavor to reinvent the Duchamp “wheel” here; it is a process that trumps it. It is any conscious encounter that provokes metamorphisms, the enchantment of a realized happenstance that draws us in.

This exhibition surveys works that possess an allure of chance and its infinite possibilities conducive to the artist’s process. This association can be generated either through an engaging “rendezvous” with an object that becomes integrated into the artist’s materials and research, or through a process that might be perceived as puzzle-like with elemental and even calculated risk.

Infinitude negotiates the uncanny from the mundane and its potential to elevate everyday sensibilities, exploring the realm of chance possibilities when the quotidian quantitative is transformed to the extraordinarily unique.

 

Ayan Farah

Ayan Farah
Then, 2014
Terracotta on linen
70.86 x 47.24 in (180 x 120 cm)

Amanda Ross-Ho

Amanda Ross-Ho
Untitled Drop Cloth Painting (RAGTIME AND RAFFIA), 2014
Canvas drop cloth, acrylic paint, latex paint, white goddess negatives, homemade canvas cat toy, raffia mouse cat toy, x-acto blade
84 x 63 in (213.36 x 160 cm)

Darja Bajagić

Darja Bajagić
Untitled (Three), 2014
Mixed media on canvas
49.5 x 40.75 (125.75 x 103.5 cm)

Darja Bajagić

Darja Bajagić
Untitled (Three) (Detail), 2014
Mixed media on canvas
49.5 x 40.75 (125.75 x 103.5 cm)

Jack Siegel

Jack Siegel
Untitled, 2014
20 x 16 in (50.8 x 40.64 cm) each

Marianne Vitale

Marianne Vitale
Shingle Painting (C2), 2014
Tar shingles, liquid nails on canvas
40 x 30 in (101.6 x 76.2 cm)

Ross Iannatti

Ross Iannatti
Hysteresis no. 111, 2014
Silicone coated nylon fabric, sodium azide residue, wood
47 x 35 in (119.38 x 88.9 cm)

Darja Bajagić

Darja Bajagić
Untitled (Two Devil Girls), 2014
Mixed media on canvas
48.5 x 29 in (123.19 73.66 cm)

Darja Bajagić

Darja Bajagić
Untitled (Two Devil Girls) (Detail), 2014
Mixed media on canvas
48.5 x 29 in (123.19 73.66 cm)

Ross Iannatti

Ross Iannatti
Hysteresis no. 110, 2014
Silicone coated nylon fabric, sodium azide residue, wood
47 x 35 in (119.38 x 88.9 cm)

Dean Levin

Dean Levin
The Four Seasons, 2014
Oil and pigment on canvas in aluminum artist frame
82 x 31 x 15 in (208.28 x 78.74 x 38.1 cm)

Amanda Ross-Ho

Amanda Ross-Ho
Sieve #6, 2014
Canvas drop cloth, acrylic paint, latex paint, white goddess negatives, single earrings, vintage gold tone chain fragment, cat toy, x-acto blades, aluminum thumbtacks
103 x 65.5 in (261.62 x 166.37 cm)

Ethan Cook

Ethan Cook
1A, 2014
Dye sublimation print on polyester
77 x 59.5 in (195.58 x 151.13 cm)

Ethan Cook

Ethan Cook
1B, 2014
Dye sublimation print on polyester
77 x 59.5 in (195.58 x 151.13 cm)