IMPACT
THOMPSON GIROUX GALLERY
Opening Reception Saturday, March 30th from 4–6pm
March 30th, 2019 – May 5th, 2019
Catalog essay by Peggy Cyphers
Rebound, 2019, plaster cast (19″h x 18″w x 8″d)
Impact marks a collision. Often it results from the colliding of objects, but impacts can occur between cultures, philosophies, financial strategies or changing natural environments. Impact usually relates to something we have done. With each new collision, we rush to mediate and minimize the effects, as if in an effort to keep change from taking place.
The plaster castings shown here are records of the impacts of cars accidentally coming together. The folds, dents, rips and slices all occurred upon a violent, chaotic and piercing impact. In contrast, the castings are quiet records; formed by the slow flow of suspended plaster, seeping into the folds and crevasses between the damaged car parts. The pieces are remnants of remnants. Their forms gently occur rather than being shaped or forged.
Floating Island, 2019, plaster cast (10″h x 51″w x 22″d)
Serac, 2019, plaster cast (44″h x 48″w x 10″d)
These remnants recall the manner in which pieces of glaciers break off and fall into the sea. They are the passive results of a warming atmosphere colliding with the leading end of a creeping glacier.
Glaciers move slowly, their growth so undetectable that we expect them to be eternal. We have named the chunks that break off “calves”. Calving has been naturally producing icebergs for thousands of centuries.
Impact usually seems to be more associated with things on a human time-scale. Two cars swerve out of control and crash. Glaciers can’t keep up with the effects of our impact-oriented sensibility.
Icicle, 2019, graphite on paper
DAN DEVINE
Dan Devine’s sculptures, installations and photographs explore the relationship between interior and exterior spaces. His current work is preoccupied with questions concerning space reversal as a means to explore our relationship to technology and nature. A former professional motorcycle racer, Devine brings creative tinkering and conceptual rigor to his work while redefining the spectator’s relationship to internal volumes. Notable projects include his Inside Out Car pieces and concrete castings of the space between crashed vehicles after impact. Dan Devine is Chair of the Sculpture Department at Hofstra University where he is also the Director of the Rosenberg Gallery. For over four decades, his work has been exhibited internationally in galleries and museums and has been reviewed in major publications. Recent exhibitions include: Inside Out Nascar at Icehouse Project Space September 8, 2018 and Dan Devine – Impact at Thompson Giroux Gallery, Spring 2019.
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The Thompson Giroux Gallery is located on Main Street in beautiful Chatham, NY. The gallery showcases talented artists working in a wide range of style and media. We support artists who make compelling and inspiring art.
