Matt Connors, John Henderson, Lucas Knipscher, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, Organized by Cory Nomura, 2013
Press Release:
Andrea Rosen Gallery is pleased to announce a three-person exhibition in our Gallery 2 space with work by Matt Connors, John Henderson and Lucas Knipscher. Using very different strategies, each of these artists consciously engages the tropes of modernist abstraction in ways that both acknowledge the familiarity of these gestures and renew and challenge the material conventions of their mediums. In objects that navigate and test the assumed boundaries of painting, sculpture, and photography, the three artists actively register the evolving potential of these media, suggesting an open and performative relationship to the history of abstraction and all of its loaded meanings.
Rejecting, perhaps, the serial obsolescence of commodity, the artists’ subtle gestures explore the limits of material, support, surface, and structure, finding continuation in our most traditional art practices. In a context defined by the increasing saturation of images, the three artists here make a case for the unique position that real objects can hold in the physical space of a viewer