SCAPE - 90 Degrees Exhbition Catalogue

photograghs

JIMI GLEASON

sculpture

CHRISTOPHER GEORGESCO paintings

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JACQUES GARNIER

photograghs

JIMI GLEASON

sculpture

CHRISTOPHER GEORGESCO paintings

90

°

JACQUES GARNIER

Three distinct artists working in three different mediums.

Each exploring the dissection of geometric shapes and captured light in the compositional elements of architectural forms.

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JACQUES GARNIER Field of Dreams, 2021 chromogenic print 40 X 27”

CHRISTOPHER GEORGESCO Male Figure, 1998 painted aluminum 87 x 24”

JIMI GLEASON Untitled, 2023 acrylic and silver nitrate on canvas 88 x 76”

CHRISTOPHER GEORGESCO Polyrhythms, 2020 painted steel on stainless steel base (pedestal not included) 40 x 10.5” Left: Front View Right: Back View

JACQUES GARNIER Jitterbug Blues, 2021 chromogenic print 40 x 27”

CHRISTOPHER GEORGESCO Wedge Extraction, 2023 painted steel 40 x 9 x 7”

CHRISTOPHER GEORGESCO Wedge Extraction, 2023 painted steel 40 x 9 x 7”

JIMI GLEASON Sugar Mountain, 2023 acrylic and silver nitrate on canvas 32 x 70”

JACQUES GARNIER Intersection, 2020 chromogenic print 27 x 40”

JACQUES GARNIER Catheti, 2020 chromogenic print 40 x 27”

JACQUES GARNIER Eternal Recurrences, 2019 chromogenic print 27 x 40”

CHRISTOPHER GEORGESCO Male Figure, 1998 painted aluminum 87 x 24”

JACQUES GARNIER Ginko, 2022 chromogenic print 20.25 x 30.5”

JACQUES GARNIER Reverberation, 2022 chromogenic print 20.25 x 30.5”

JACQUES GARNIER LPC, 2022 chromogenic print 30.5 x 20.25”

CHRISTOPHER GEORGESCO Yellow Shadow, 2022 painted aluminum and epoxy 18 x 18 x 5”

JACQUES GARNIER Elmtaryd, 2021 chromogenic print 40 x 27”

JACQUES GARNIER Un monde à l’envers, 2019 chromogenic print 27 x 40”

JACQUES GARNIER Dancing Zips, 2021 chromogenic print 30.5 x 20.25”

ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES

JACQUES GARNIER Garnier is a Los Angeles native, with a Master’s degree in French Literature from UC Santa Barbara. The award-winning photographer has participated in over 150 exhibitions, most recently including LACMA, Southeast Museum of Photography, the Chinese Academy of Fine Art in Beijing, China, PhotoNola and the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum, and is included in several of these museum’s permanent collection.

Writer Dave Barton describes Jacques Garnier’s recent series titled “Hymns to the Silence” as an “echoing of the familiar amidst the unknown….

His imposed photographic manipulation of already severe modernist facades serves to draw one’s eye back to the austerity at hand, as well as the beauty that might otherwise go unnoticed.

While the still, contemplative variances of the architecture grips our imagination, Garnier’s separation of design from function, sans context as distraction, gives us reason to rethink both.”

JIMI GLEASON

CHRISTOPHER GEORGESCO

Jimi Gleason has spent his career exploring the reflective possibilities of a painterly surface.

Mixing nontraditional materials such as silver deposit with acrylic paints, Gleason’s surfaces are highly reactive to light and shifts in the viewer’s position. “By using an iridescent surface coat, I have managed to create visual spaces that respond to both the play of light and the location of the viewer,” he says.

Christopher Georgesco’s sculptures are rooted in Modernism. His father was a renowned architect who was heavily steeped in both the Bauhaus and Modernist Movements – both of which influenced Christopher’s work in many ways.

These early influences helped inform his choice of style and materials. He states: “The beauty and complexities of wood, concrete, and steel were ingrained into my aesthetic from a young age. It is hard to dispute Modernism. Less is More. It is timeless.“

To achieve his luminous surfaces, Gleason utilizes industrial materials - silver nitrate - in a process he’s been investigating and applying for over a decade.

Gleason treats acrylic-coated canvases with a chemical mixture and then sprays with silver nitrate solution.

His silver deposit surfaces act as enigmatic mirrors that are activated by the viewer and the environment they are situated in. Light, color and angular shapes are injected into the paintings via the external world - through this movement, Gleason hopes to induce a meditative experience for his viewers.

Jimi Gleason was born and raised in Southern California. He graduated with a BA in Fine Art from UC Berkeley in 1985, later moving to New York.

Upon his return to California, Jimi worked as a studio assistant for renowned abstract painter, Ed Moses.

The artist’s interests in outer space and Infinity are other important factors in his work. At an early age, he recalls being shocked when he learned the sky did not end, which he says, impacted his working methodology in cyclic ways.

He states: “Outer space is what I try to form and activate using the sculptures as the templates.”

Light is another important element brought into his sculptures by way of his use of reflective materials such as stainless steel, or back painting that refracts on the wall.

Georgesco prefers using rectangle shapes over square ones because of their inherent elongated shape which he finds more elegant. He works with a series of forms that are interchangeable in position and scale which continue to evolve and inspire his art practice. When building sculpture, he states: “I know exactly where each piece fits.”

Published on occasion of “90 Degrees Exhibition” October 26 - November 28 2023 Curated by Jeannie Denholm Catalogue Design by Kathleen Updyke Brown © 2023 SCAPE | southern california art projects + exhibitions © Each Artists’ respective artwork SCAPE | southern california art projects + exhibitions 2859 e. coast highway, corona del mar, ca 92625 info@scapesite.com 949.723.3406 scapesite.com