Exhibition Calendar

Bug War Over Two Blue Mountain

In the three years since their last solo exhibition, San Francisco based duo, Kate Eric, have realized a visionary breakthrough in their work, applying acrylic paints in ever more inventive ways onto stained raw canvases or white paper. The human figure and indeed any kind of anthropomorphic intentionality have vanished. The palettes are rich with primary colors, with a heightened dynamism to the compositions – each element seems crushed, stretched or squeezed by surrounding activities. The distinctness of each "creature" has grown ill-defined, as parts of the same biological systems battle other facets of what may be the same organism. The artists have half-humorously referred to these as studies of a kind of "molecular sociology."

The exhibition will comprise twelve new paintings on canvas and paper, including the eponymous painting, Bug War Over Two Blue Mountain (2010). This monumental centerpiece is their largest canvas to date, measuring fifteen by almost eight feet. This piece envelopes the viewer in an otherworldly ecosystem where hybrid sea, insect, plant, spore and chicken creatures fight beautiful wars against a backdrop of shifting sky and a horizon like diaphanous cloth blending with solid blue mountains. The context is both tangible and ethereal.