Two openings at FORELAND
Saturday October 15th 5:30-7:30
on view from 10/15 - 11/27
Gallery hours- Saturdays & Sundays 11-5 pm
FORELAND 111 Water St. Catskill NY

Foreland Presents - System Sets, Curated by Jesse Greenberg, with works by David Brooks, Nathaniel De Large, Matthew Fischer, Russel Tyler, Susan Wides

JAG Projects - Theodore Sefcik, Here Goes

Foreland Presents

System Sets

Curated by Jesse Greenberg

With works by David Brooks, Nathaniel De Large, Matthew Fischer, Russel Tyler, Susan Wides

Foreland is Please to present System Sets, a group show curated by Jesse Greenberg. Showcasing the works of David Brooks, Nathaniel De Large, Matthew Fischer, Russel Tyler, Susan Wides. With a focus revolving around forms and systems shared between nature and tools of observation.

David Brooks two aluminum cast renderings made from scanned drone footage of now deforested spots in the rainforest reveal tufts of tree tops and lumbering facilities emerging from a spill of aluminum presented on the floor like a memorial plaque.

Nathaniel De Large paper pulp wyrley forms, seem like branches. Expressive and reaching, actually double as crude Augmented Reality Phone Cases. When attached to your phone, their branches reach into your camera frame, placing his art in any scene.

Matthew Fischer’s stained glass and oil on panel structures take the sun drenched light of the gallery, refracted through each other and through the room. Framing light and color, harping on musical ouvres, these works suspend something holy yet under identifiable proportions.

Russel Tylers serial formatic paintings look like film stills of a movie about stained glass. Each similar in their system and structure exist in their own harmony of hand, color, and proportional compositions, that could seemingly have endless iterations.

Susan Wides's “Arachnoid” photographic series of extreme close-ups of spider webs intermingled with the camera's internal lens flares and spectral trails present a tiny world where the physical, atomic, and macro all fold into their own indistinguishable field of abstract structures.

JAG Projects Presents
Theodore Sefcik
Here Goes

JAG Projects is pleased to present a selection of new videos by Theodore Sefcik. To create his video works, Sefcik begins by hand drawing all of his characters and scene elements using an unusual collection of mostly obsolete and vintage software.

Movement is a core element of Sefcik’s artistic vision. Sometimes the scene elements, including animals, humanoids, and inscrutable organic and geometric forms are directly controlled by Sefcik like marionettes. Other times, Sefcik provides his creations with their own methods of locomotion, and allows them to independently waddle, crawl and tumble under their own power using a system of invisible pins, gears and levers.

Sefcik painstakingly selects and edits his favorite scenes and deploys them onto scavenged and refurbished LCD monitors which are each paired with a customized minicomputer video unit to display these choreographed scenes of mirth, mayhem and grace.

Sometimes, a scene will last for an hour, sometimes only a few seconds. The length of time is not as important as whether a certain emotion has been captured and it’s story has been told. Sefcik believes that some stories can only be told by watching a 5 second loop on repeat.

JAG Projects is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization. Contributions for the charitable purposes of JAG Projects must be made payable to “Fractured Atlas” only and are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.

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