Working between photography, painting and drawing, each artist is concerned with how the structure of visual form, image and materiality can be moulded, reproduced, revealed and obscured in order to navigate broader societal mechanisms. In poetic, and often enigmatic ways, the three artists consider history as material, something elusive and deeply entangled within personal and collective contexts.
Aaron Turner
Through his series Black Alchemy, Aaron Turner is primarily concerned with constructing images that address abstraction, history, the pictorial aspects of blackness as material, surveillance, artificial intelligence, the archive, the discursive enterprise, and the artists' role in the studio space. Black Alchemy provides a lens through which he sees the world while simultaneously considering the past, present, and future. He uses light in combination with
geometric abstraction painting to shift questions of identity, the historical narrative, and the discourse of photography.
J.B. Morton
J.B. Morton is a New York-based artist working to collapse the modernist emphasis on visuality with the diagrammatic spaces of conceptual art and science. His diverse methods address relations between living memory, historical imagination, and the contemporary mode of production. Mixing camerawork between film and digital formats, archival research and reproduction, materialist photo-exposures, and gestural painting, the optical unconscious is provoked across a range of registers.
Ella Wearing
Ella Wearing utilizes architectural motifs and patterns that she collects from built environments. Through a process grounded in drawing, Wearing fragments, realigns, and distorts her inventory as a way to think about the strata of the past, and the lineage of forms that tie personal and societal structures to present and future states. She attempts to loosen patterns that seem fixed, doing so through the use of visual
