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Review of "The Ends" from Creative Loafing |
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April 7 - April 28
Beep Beep Gallery is proud to present "The Ends", an exhibition of new work by Jason Kofke and Chris Chambers. Friends and collaborators since college, the two find themselves together in Atlanta for the first time in years. After several residencies abroad, Jason returned to the United States to teach in Florida before moving back to Atlanta. He is the recent recipient of the prestigious Artadia Award. While The Ends is primarily drawing based, Chris Chambers has shown mostly video and installation work at a number of public art events including Le Flash, Elevate, and Axiom. While we've worked with Jason and Chris in the past, "The Ends" features the largest amount of work from these two artists.at Beep Beep. ABOUT THE ENDS THE ENDS combines drawings, contemporary artifacts, outdated electronics, and recorded events to decipher potential teleological ends of the modern past. THE ENDS is a show of related differences: Drawings and multimedia installations, past events and present interpretations, representations and appropriations, proposed meanings and unanswered questions. The material of the recent past is used to communicate an understanding of the recent past and, by default, now. THE ENDS is a two-person collaborative exhibition of new works by Chris Chambers and Jason Kofke. |
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 Scientific theories about time travel and their literary interpretations provide the narrative framework for the pieces in Mike Germon's newest collection of work. The inevitable paradoxes therein are mirrored in both form and content in collages combining chronologically... disparate source material.
About the artist:
Time travel, alchemy and the Exquisite Corpse serve as thematic and stylistic underpinnings as Mike Germon's collage and installation work combine the visual elements of religious and scientific source materials. Both modern and vintage graphic design inform the minimalist compositions of his relatively small pieces. The frequent inclusion of found objects provides greater context for two-dimensional work, as well as compositional diversity, and a broader range in which to explore the potential of physical source material. Atlanta arts writer Jerry Cullum's reaction to a recent installation in a group show offers a concise description that is applicable to much of Germon's work: " [It] was the most reflective in juxtaposing potent shorthand for a bunch of incompatible belief systems, all of which have in common the effort to impose a grid of meaning on the mess of history." |
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