David Corbett, Alex Felton, Kristan Kennedy, Sterling Lawrence
Opening Reception February 4th, 6pm-9pm
Half/Dozen is pleased to present an exhibition looking into contemporary abstract works through a lens that gazes away from power, high status, and the sacred, which has demanded monumental and sublime expressions that elicit submission. It focuses instead on what Edmond Burke taught us long ago: overwhelming sublime spaces are best left obscure, and the intentionality of mere objects has no place in the transcendental as a call for exodus into a more democratic realm for artistic production. These artists find cultural contexts and language to animate objects into something more than items for financial speculation or mere amusement, embracing an ethos to not allow signs and images to vanish into an abyss of indifference or commercial oblivion. Here artists have acknowledged the criticisms in the history of abstract art associated with spectacle and empirical structures, and used them as a foundation to work away from on a conceptual level.
