MATTHEW BEST
THINK AGAIN | FIVE POINTS ANNEX GALLERY
OCTOBER 20 - NOVEMBER 2, 2020
I begin with an action (a line, a color, a field, a mark). I make a second action which sometimes destroys the first action. Sometimes it furthers the work. The third action is a reaction to what is left of the previous two actions. All subsequent actions change, alter, bolster, or destroy everything that came before. If I like anything too much I get rid of it. If I kind of like something but don’t like it quite enough, I get rid of it. Obviously if I am completely dissatisfied, I get rid of it. I am looking for the stories I tell myself, at what I find too comfortable, what I return to again and again (what I already know I can do) and I try to eliminate them. It is an imperfect process that causes me anxiety but allows for the creation of paintings that surprise me. This process forces me to dwell in uncertainty. These paintings are my attempt to navigate this uncertainty.
JESSICA FALLIS
THINK AGAIN | FIVE POINTS ANNEX GALLERY
OCTOBER 20 - NOVEMBER 2, 2020
These pieces are born of anxiety. Created during my first few years of teaching, they are a way for me to find order and calm amidst change and uncertainty. The lines are meticulously rendered by hand, mimicking an automated process as precisely as possible. This process becomes a form of meditation as I sit, breathe, and slow down. These pieces are a search for balance. As I layer these orbs of water, I think about formal aspects of balance, space, color relationships, and pattern. I think about the way water ripples, overlapping in mesmerizing, enigmatic patterns, and the calm that comes from watching that movement. I think about tension: between the need to control and the freedom of exploration. Through these pieces I seek calm--in the colors I use, in the soft flow of lines, in the dream-like layering and obscuring of forms, in the strange space suspended in each piece. These pieces are an escape. They are a moment to pause, reflect, and just be.
KARL GOULET
THINK AGAIN | FIVE POINTS ANNEX GALLERY
OCTOBER 20 - NOVEMBER 2, 2020
This work stems from a series that abstracts the human body, focusing on emphasizing the relationship between skin and memory and how the body reflects those memories. The physicality of the surface creates the illusion of skin, that is stretched, layered and forcefully stuffed into gluttonous proportions. Resembling small torsos or details of fleshy bodies the small dimensions of these pieces allows for an intimate view of the exposure of the body that takes on a physical life of its own.
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