{"id":4043,"date":"2015-08-26T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-26T05:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/?p=4043"},"modified":"2015-09-01T14:15:19","modified_gmt":"2015-09-01T18:15:19","slug":"double-vision-at-artswest-in-seattle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/content\/collage-exhibitions\/double-vision-at-artswest-in-seattle\/","title":{"rendered":"Double Vision at ArtsWest in Seattle"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"max-cleary-building-a-thing-to-forget-web\"<\/p>\n

“Double Vision”: Max Cleary and Joe Rudko
\n3 September-11 October 2015<\/h2>\n

Reception & Artist Talks: Tuesday, 15 September, 6:30-8:30PM<\/p>\n

Joe Rudko and Max Cleary make use of existing photographic imagery the way an abstract painter might use paint, with thoughts of composition, form, texture, colour. The difference between this collage-like process and abstract painting is that the ingredients of the resulting pieces are inherently and more obviously meaningful. A blue rectangle that is made from a picture of the surface of the ocean lends itself to narrative more forcefully than a blue rectangle made with ultramarine and cobalt blue. The shapes of recognizable imagery have been so altered that they become small fields that one must navigate visually before remembering what these shapes and colours usually do and then reconcile that with what they have been made to do here.<\/p>\n

\"joe-rudko-backdrop-web\"In Max Cleary\u2019s Building a Thing to Forget<\/em>, rectangular shapes of what look like ocean, rock, grass and dirt make up an entity that is suspended or momentarily posing in a portrait-like composition. This character seems to be on the verge of becoming, rather than being firmly realized. Cleary writes: \u201cI\u2019m interested in that middle stage of reaching and in the idea of it perpetuating; to never successfully reach the end point.\u201d<\/p>\n

Joe Rudko\u2019s Backdrop<\/em> is an assembled grid of black-and-white photographs in which the human subjects have been transported elsewhere. What is left is white negative spaces that double as charged abstract subjects. Rudko writes, \u201cThe juxtaposition of existing imagery and handmade mark making references a contemporary culture that functions in the uncertain space between the virtual and real, the abstract and the definitive. When time seems to stretch, and space seems to fold inward, we can begin to reexamine how we author and interpret the experience of seeing.\u201d<\/p>\n

(adapted from the gallery’s press materials)<\/p>\n

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INFORMATION<\/h3>\n

ArtsWest<\/strong>
\n4711 California Avenue SW
\nSeattle, Washington 98116 USA
\n(206) 938-0963<\/p>\n

Hours:<\/strong>
\nThursday-Saturday, 1:30-7:30PM
\nSunday, 10:30AM-3PM<\/p>\n

MAP<\/a> | WEBSITE<\/a>\u00a0| FACEBOOK<\/a><\/p>\n

Images:<\/strong>
\n(top)
\nBuilding a Thing to Forget<\/em>
\nby Max Cleary
\nImage courtesy of the artist and ArtsWest, Seattle, Washington, USA<\/p>\n

(centre)
\nBackdrop<\/em>
\nby Joe Rudko
\nImage courtesy of the artist and ArtsWest, Seattle, Washington, USA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Double Vision”: Max Cleary and Joe Rudko 3 September-11 October 2015 Reception & Artist Talks: Tuesday, 15 September, 6:30-8:30PM Joe Rudko and Max Cleary make use of existing photographic imagery the way an abstract painter might use paint, with thoughts…<\/p>\n

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