JOHN BEECH: NEW WORK   SCULPTURE & DRAWINGS
October 13 - November 21
Opening Reception FRIDAY: OCT. 13th 5-7pm

For Imediate Release

Howard Yezerski Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of John Beech New Work Sculpture & Drawings. The exhibition, the first for Beech in Boston, opens on Friday October 13th and will include a mix of Dumpster Drawings and small sculptures. Focusing on common everyday objects like containers, dollies, crates, and dumpsters Beech draws our attention to the form and the function of these objects and then by changing the context of how they are used develops a new visual language that fuses the utilitarian object with abstract art.

Drawing from Dada, Surrealism, Minimalism, Pop art, Radical painting, and mixing these references with a certain amount of assurance and innovation Beech challenges our sense of perception and recollection. Allowing us to look with fresh eyes at the everyday objects he uses to make his work. The Dumpster Drawings are black and white photographs that Beech applies enamel paint to covering the form of the dumpster. The enamel paint creates a three dimensional object with weight and density out of a two-dimensional photograph turning the drawing into a painted minimal sculpture.

Like many artists who draw on outside experiences to inform there work Beech’s years as a museum preparator continues to have a great influence on him. The life of an art work when it isn't being displayed or is in the process of being made are experiences that fill out the reality of what an object of art is. For Beech a container is not a container, a painting is not a painting, and a sculpture is not sculpture. He literally and figuratively turns the tables on tradition. A sculpted surface becomes a painting, and a photograph becomes an object in Beech's world of utilitarian abstract art.

 

 

 

For further information please contact Alexis Dunfee at Howard Yezerski Gallery 617.262.0550 Tuesday - Saturday 10-5:30pm