Group Show: The Dark Room
Borja Guillot, Carson Lancaster, Christopher M. Tandy, Grady Gordon, Sai Li, Maria-Nicole Ikonomou & Scott Jennings
Dates: October 26 - November 23, 2018
Opening Reception: Friday, October 26 | 6-8 pm
Glass Rice is proud to present The Dark Room, a group show featuring the works of seven different artists, all offering unique interpretations of what darkness means to them, whether it be emotional or natural representations.
The gallery space has been transformed from a stark white room brimming with natural light, to an unrecognizable dwelling that has long been forgotten; where Cimmerian shade has taken a hold. Viewers are urged to explore the room, making their own discoveries - touch, smell, sit, and breathe it all in - let the darkness consume you. We’ve taken pieces of the past, a 1950’s RCA Viator television, an old desk filled with precious belongings, a degraded mercury mirror, offering viewers an opportunity to look back at a deteriorated reflection of themselves in a time forgotten. The oxblood walls highlight Borja Guillot’s daguerrotypes of monstrous hybrid creatures, Christopher M. Tandy’s fleeting Mylar portraits, Grady Gordon’s crude monotype mythologies, Carson Lancaster’s otherworldly painted photographs, Sai Li’s drawings of meditations on her own depression, Maria-Nicole Ikonomou’s fantastical drawings of figures, fish and skulls, and finally, Scott Jennings’ sculptures of abstracted bones. We invite you to enter the dark room…
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven
Borja Guillot, Carson Lancaster, Christopher M. Tandy, Grady Gordon, Sai Li, Maria-Nicole Ikonomou & Scott Jennings
Dates: October 26 - November 23, 2018
Opening Reception: Friday, October 26 | 6-8 pm
Glass Rice is proud to present The Dark Room, a group show featuring the works of seven different artists, all offering unique interpretations of what darkness means to them, whether it be emotional or natural representations.
The gallery space has been transformed from a stark white room brimming with natural light, to an unrecognizable dwelling that has long been forgotten; where Cimmerian shade has taken a hold. Viewers are urged to explore the room, making their own discoveries - touch, smell, sit, and breathe it all in - let the darkness consume you. We’ve taken pieces of the past, a 1950’s RCA Viator television, an old desk filled with precious belongings, a degraded mercury mirror, offering viewers an opportunity to look back at a deteriorated reflection of themselves in a time forgotten. The oxblood walls highlight Borja Guillot’s daguerrotypes of monstrous hybrid creatures, Christopher M. Tandy’s fleeting Mylar portraits, Grady Gordon’s crude monotype mythologies, Carson Lancaster’s otherworldly painted photographs, Sai Li’s drawings of meditations on her own depression, Maria-Nicole Ikonomou’s fantastical drawings of figures, fish and skulls, and finally, Scott Jennings’ sculptures of abstracted bones. We invite you to enter the dark room…
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven
Listen to Evan Meyer's live set from the opening reception here.