Though You've Hit a Bump
Carolyn Salas, Barb Smith, Christine Navin, Anna Plesset, Kadar Brock, John Henry Donner and Nathaniel de Large
June 4 - July 10, 2016
At the intersection between internalized pain and externalized production lies practice. It simultaneously is and presents new solutions. For its inaugural Brooklyn exhibition, 315 presents the work of seven artists entrenched in physically demanding practices, inhabiting personal suffering as a means to approach broad understandings of moving past the bump in the road. *We do not know enough about the mind, or how the conundrum of the imagination dictates, discovers, or can dismember what we feel, or what we find. Perhaps one must learn to trust one’s terror:
Carolyn Salas
Barb Smith
Christine Navin
Anna Plesset
Kadar Brock
John Henry Donner
Nathaniel de Large
*the holding on the letting go is error...
Kadar Brock residuumiii, 2013-2014 Pulverized paintings, urethane, fiberglass mesh on panel, mdf frame 61.5 x 41.5 x 4 inches
Kadar Brock residuumiii, 2013-2014 Pulverized paintings, urethane, fiberglass mesh on panel, mdf frame 61.5 x 41.5 x 4 inches
Carolyn Salas Cut Out No. 1, 2015 Hydrocal, fiberglass, steel armature 98 x 72 x 15.5 inches
Barb Smith Untitled, 2016 Aqua-Resin, memory foam 72 x 37 x 27 inches (dimensions variable)
Barb Smith Untitled, 2016 Aqua-Resin, memory foam 72 x 37 x 27 inches (dimensions variable)
Barb Smith Untitled, 2016 Aqua-Resin, memory foam 72 x 37 x 27 inches (dimensions variable)
John Henry Donner Untitled, 2016 Plaster, cardboard, latex, bondo, found objects 36 x 22 x 24 inches (dimensions variable)
John Henry Donner Untitled, 2016 Plaster, cardboard, latex, bondo, found objects 36 x 22 x 24 inches (dimensions variable)
Christine Navin MCMLXXXVIII, 2016 1988 Kawasaki 250R, tree stump, scrying sphere, pillow, epoxy putty 45 x 87 x 42 inches
Christine Navin MCMLXXXVIII, 2016 1988 Kawasaki 250R, tree stump, scrying sphere, pillow, epoxy putty 45 x 87 x 42 inches
Christine Navin MCMLXXXVIII, 2016 1988 Kawasaki 250R, tree stump, scrying sphere, pillow, epoxy putty 45 x 87 x 42 inches
Anna Plesset The Pretense of Beauty I: Mulberry Harbour, Arromanches (Golden Arrow), 2015 Oil on Dibond 9 ½ x 14 inches
Nathaniel de Large M-106XSD, 2014 Anodized titanium 36 × 48 inches