Art Opening: Gregory Euclid at David B. Smith

We're putting the final touches on some walls today at the gallery, so not much time to type, but when I get cleaned up this evening it will be to look semi presentable opening reception of Gregory Euclide's New Works at the David B. Smith Gallery (1543 A Wazee) tonight in Denver. If you're unfamiliar with Euclid's incredible three dimensional landscapes, here's some insight from the David B. Smith, press release.

"Euclide takes paint and pours it on the land, capturing the local flora and terrain in the paint. On top of the paint, Euclide builds a diorama, depicting the concept of the idealized landscape framework. What the viewer sees in these pieces is more than any one concept—it is the interaction and interconnection between the actual land, the cultural idealization of the landscape, and the art-making process itself. Through this tension, these pieces address the issues of regeneration, recycling, growth and decay, the synthetic and the organic, and the very cycles driven by nature.

For this exhibition at the David B. Smith Gallery, Euclide is creating a multi-sensory installation to reinforce these ideas and themes: “capturing nature” as it is on film, in paint, or at a scenic photo turnout (which someone has designated as “beautiful”). Similar in structure to an overlook in a park, with guardrail, gravel, cigarette butts, garbage and road noise, Euclide’s work brings both local land and landscape into the gallery with a large scale “Capture” taking place in the mountains of Colorado. Simultaneously resembling views from the Hudson River School and a chemical spill, the work creates a tension that asks the viewer to think about the irony and political motives behind things like the scenic turnout."

See you there, showered, shaved and awestruck!

Concerning what fiction dissolves in your top branches

Produced within the layers of viewing's making

Produced within the layers of viewing’s making from David B. Smith on Vimeo.

Held on history's material desire

The oranger side of oyster cluster's tiny pockets