In celebration of his tenth year with SILVERLENS, artist and curator Gary-Ross Pastrana's 6th solo exhibition with the gallery, Utopia Hasn't Failed Me Yet, opens on 7 July 2018. In this exhibition of new collages, Pastrana's initial plan is to echo aspects of On Kawara's date paintings. He set out to develop his own simplified yet consistent studio practice, manageable to a degree that it can result in a new work everyday and overall projected to be sustainable in the long run (or for as long as he physically can). This on-going collage project set afoot in the late 2017 and is on pace to breach the 200-piece mark will be on display in this exhibition.
Alongside his exhibition in the main space, selected works from Pastrana’s practice (2000 - present) will be exhibited in the gallery's viewing room.
Since this project began, each new day for Pastrana has come infused with a recurrent task, an unrelenting problem that continuously needs to be solved, re-solved and so forth, with each fresh stab at a resolu
