Exhibition

Oddball - er

21 Nov 2008 – 19 Dec 2008

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Friday
12:00 – 18:00
Saturday
12:00 – 18:00
Wednesday
12:00 – 18:00
Thursday
12:00 – 18:00

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London, United Kingdom

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ODDBALL-ER

About

n oddball is a person who is atypical. An atypical object is something unusual or even bizarre - it goes against what we understand to be the norm. That is not to say the mediums used by the artists in Fold Gallery's forthcoming show are unusual or bizarre. On the contrary, the show comprises works that follow the long established traditions of painting, sculpture and photography. So, if it is not the mediums, perhaps it is the approach or the attitude, wherein lies the eccentric, non-conforming nature usually associated with being 'oddball'? The works share a common trait insofar as they each require a second look, so that with each fresh perusal, many different meanings may be inferred. The semiotics of the surreal, the iconography of the body, the development of imaginary people who apply inverted logic as the norm, and the making of the ordinary infinite, all inevitably invite us to focus on how the works operate and how they dodge expectation. 'Oddball-er' creates potential for surprise and may imply that the effort of trivializing its oddness leaves us empty handed and, therefore, more able to embrace the serious questions which underscore the works. John Andrew lives and works in New York City. His sculptures and his spatial interventions imply an infinity to objects which have 'known limits.' He re-works ordinary visual material to prolong its function and, circumventing its logic, extends its spatiality and its implications. He has exhibited in Berlin and California and currently has a solo exhibition at Audio Visual Art, New York. Pearl C. Hsiung lives and works in Los Angeles. Her paintings portray an imaginative, tremulous world of eruptions and apparitions. Signs and codes, the expanded planes of the imagined and the immensity of the awesome and the profound oscillate wildly. Worldwide solo and group exhibitions have included the Busan Biennial, and The California Biennial. Willem Weismann lives and works in London. His paintings tell the fragmented tale of a world in which tribes of people have stark and, often unfailingly, optimistic methods that work counter to most rational ideas of the logic of survival and comfort. He has exhibited at Regina Gallery, Moscow, 404 Gallery, Naples and is currently represented by MOGADISHNI in Copenhagen. Grant Worth lives and works in New York City. His videos and Polaroids offer both a poetic document of his travels, life, and his finding beauty in the ordinary and everyday. He translates his findings into a patterning, creating a new iconographic narrative which adds a mystical dimension to the 'ordinary'. Grant Worth has exhibited in Europe and North America. He has had a solo exhibition at John Connelly Presents in New York, and was selected to exhibit at Tate Liverpool.

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