Adam Dodd and Sean Weisgerber | Spectral Rhythms

Adam Dodd (06) and Sean Weisgerber (09) exhibit Spectral Rhythms at Shudder Gallery.

In a period of globalization and the domination of the digital, Adam and Sean revisit analog mediums and construct compositions that pulse with recurrent geometric structures: these recurrences transform the homogenous repetitions of global mass production, beating with a rhythm that is intentionally out of synch.

In this latest series of paintings and drawings, Adam continues to explore the insistent and rhythmic character of our environment. Traces of the past left in the remnants of foundations, alleyways, vacant lots and architectural phantom limbs in the sky exert a strong influence. Compositions emerge from these spaces, created by the interplay of light and form. These influences combined with collage from Vancouver Magazine dating from the mid-80s inform the painting, in particular casting spectral apparitions from our shared past into the now.

Sean has been examining geometric forms since his early experimentations with letterform abstraction, a mode of painterly representation that uses the simplest units of language to explore the complexities of meaning and communication. In the main level gallery, he is exhibiting three abstract works that examine the building blocks of communication in a world dominated by the image-form of the pixel. The translation of our perceptions into pixels forces language to react, shift and reset, creating a new illusory language for us to scan, decode and ponder. In the basement, a number of smaller works presented as one gestalt work will be added to and revised throughout the exhibition, existing in a permanently transitional state.

These works are part of an ongoing project (Pixel Idioms) to treat pictorial elements as a mutable diction of visual signs that can be merged and varied to investigate the language of art (specifically painting) and to explore its ability to communicate in our noisy, multilingual, digital modernity.

Shudder Gallery
June 10 - June 27, 2009
Opening Reception June 10 from 7pm to 11pm

For more information, please visit Adam Dodd, Bachelor Machines and Sean Weisgerber.

Read the review by Things of Desire here.