Brian Conery, Similarities, Art Works 2009-2015

similarities BRIAN CONERY - WORKS 2009-2015

similarities BRIAN CONERY - WORKS 2009-2015

All work in this book from 2009-2015 Š 2016 Brian Conery All rights reserved. brianconery.com

Making remains at the core of Brian’s practice. In this catalog there are 3 main bodies of work that are connected yet distinct. His foray into sculpture began with a series of pieces under the rubric “Locations” which later became part of “New Terrain”. With both metaphoric and formal considerations the work suggests emotional and psychological landscapes leaving the viewer to ask what is going on here? What seem to be scenarios and narratives are made monochromatic to separate them from actual to the imaginary and the subconscious. Digital photographic reproduction lives along side the work as a focused point of view as well as art objects themselves.

Starting with materials studies during his Banff Centre residency [B.A.I.R], new work emerged that was more abstract and formal but retaining previous sensibilities and scale alluding to the body, skin, architectural and microscopic structures. Fragments take on significance, embedded in time as a context.

Altered digital images of a building’s demolition are in dialogue with a grid of suspended fragments in the subsequent show “Removal” alluding to exposure and a revealing, the fragility of ephemeral existence.

The third body in this continuum consists largely of two dimensional work that mines the previous two explorations in a recycling and further abstraction. Working over and destruction of images from earlier work, the panel “mash-ups” form a pastiche of expressive layers and juxtapositions.

Other un-exhibited experimental work are also shown here as context for development and exploration that takes place during the making process.

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View of “New Terrain” at DGSF: Parasite, Object Field, Stage One, New Terrain, Source, Inside, Site, Unknown Object, Wall, Outpost Mixed Media, 2011

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Left clockwise: Object Field (detail): Platform, Addition, Dense, Stage, Small Corporation, Contents, Mixed Media, 2011,

Above: Object Field Mixed Media, 2011, 40” x 5’ x 12”

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Above: Asteroid (detail), Mixed Media, 2010, 10” x 10” x 24”

Right: Corporation (detail), Mixed Media, 2011, 3’ x 5’ x 2’

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Above: Inside, Mixed Media, 2010, 14” x 4” x 10”

Right clockwise: Source, Wall, Site, Unknown Object, Mixed Media, 2009-10

ASTEROID

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This page: Village (detail), Mixed Media, 2009, 24” x 10” x 12” Opposite: 20 Locations (detail) Archival inkjet prints 2012, 13” x 19” ea.

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Mars (detail), Archival inkjet prints 2012, 39� x 19�

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Corporation (detail), Mixed Media, 2011, 3’ x 5’ x 2’

Information Terrain - Mars and Moon, Archival inkjet prints, 2012, 39” x 19” and 26” x 19”

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Asterioid, Entry Mixed Media, 2010-11, 10” x 10” x 24”, 12” x 14” x 10”

Through, Mixed media, 2011, 12” x 24” x 48”

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Above: Parasite, Mixed Media, 2011, 10” x 10” x 24”

Right: Source, Content Delivery Platform, Mixed Media, 2009-10, 8” x 10” x 18”, 8” x 10” x 18”

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Left: Site, Mixed Media, 2010, 24” x 24” x 7”

Above: Underground, Mixed Media, 2010, 24” x 24” x 5”

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Boards (detail content delivery platform), Mixed media 2010, 8” x 8” x 16”

Replacement (detail), Mixed media 2010, 10” x 14” x 10”

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B.A.I.R. (Banff Artist in Residence) The Banff Centre, 2013 Left and opposite: Materials development, wax and mold making (detail), industrial and sculptural waxes 2013

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B.A.I.R. (Banff Artist in Residence) The Banff Centre, 2013

Materials development, wax and mold making, experimental sculpture, inkjet and acrylic concept development, industrial, sculptural waxes and mixed media 2013

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Left: Data Field 3, Mixed Media, 2013, 4’ x 12’

Above: Data Field Reconfigured (detail), Mixed Media, 2013

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Content Cloud (detail), Archival inkjet print, acrylic and ink on paper, 2014, 22� x 30�

View of “Removal” at the Wall Gallery Mixed Media, 2014,

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Left: Map 1 (detail), Mixed Media, 2014, 4’ x 10’

Above: Building 1, Archival inkjet prints on panels, acrylic, 2014, 12” x 2” x 16” ea.

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Above: Building 1, Archival inkjet prints on panels, acrylic, 2014, 12” x 16”

Right: Map 1 (detail), Mixed media, 2014, 4’ x 10’

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Above: Skin (detail), Mixed media, 2014, 22” x 32” x 3”

Right: Map 1 (details), Mixed media, 2014, 4’ x 10’

CONFIGURED

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Above and Right: Map 1 (detail), Mixed media, 2014, 4’ x 10’

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Remainder, Graphite, acrylic, 2014, 16” x 26”

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7 Things, Mixed media, 2014

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Left: Fragments (detail), Mixed media, 2014, 5” x 10” x 18”

Above: Building 1, Archival inkjet prints on panels, acrylic, 2014, 12” x 16” ea.

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Building 1, Archival inkjet prints on panels, acrylic, 2014, 12� x 16�

Building 1, Archival inkjet prints on panels, acrylic, 2014, 12� x 16�

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Map 1 (detail), Mixed media, 2014, 4” x 10’

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Map 1 (detail), Mixed media, 2014, 4’ x 10’

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Data Field 2, Mixed media, 2014, dimensions variable

3 Fragments, Shelf, Cardboard, gesso and graphite, 2014, dimensions variable

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Left: 3 Fragments (detail) Barge, Hills of Mars, Mixed media, 2015, dimensions variable

Above: 3 Fragments (detail) Hills of Mars, Mixed media, 2015, dimensions variable

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Above: Can’t Land, Mixed media, 2015, 18” x 36”

Right: Both Directions (detail), Mixed media, 2015, 16” x 20”

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Discreet Objects, Mixed media, 2015, 20” x 42”

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Barge Knowledge 2, Mixed media, 2015, 24” x 24”

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Above: Contained, Mixed media, 2015, 25” x 22”

Right: Fallen (detail), Mixed media, 2015, 23” x 28”

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Opposite: Fallen (detail), Mixed media, 2015, 23” x 28” This page: Barge Knowledge 1, Mixed media, 2015, 24” x 36”

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This page: Both Directions, Mixed media, 2015, 16” x 20” Opposite: Assembly (detail), Mixed media, 2015, 18” x 36”

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