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May 7th - June 26, 2005
Opening Recption
May 7, 2005 » 6 - 9 pm
Semiconductors presents the work of ten young artists who use paint to realize their respective conceptual goals.
The works range from Eric Standley’s traditional oil paintings carefully cut and sews into shoes, to Michael Scoggins’ oversized superhero drawings, to Alexis Terry’s metal can constellations of pigmented plaster. Cultural references may be as muted as Heath Ritch’s “stamped” abstractions and Brett Calero’s mediated “re-make” paintings, or as obvious as Jessica Schnebel’s one-month paintings of Glamour magazine covers or artist/curator Craig Drennen’s “Supergirl” series.
The artists in Semiconductors submerge themselves into the practice of painting without accepting the binary absolutes of previous generations. At a time when the act of painting suggests to some a retrograde attachment to materials over ideas, and the recurring “returns” to painting tend to valorize only the most the most predictable tendencies; these artists represent a new type of relevancy.
Their work becomes a site, like the surface of a silicone chip, where both information and materiality are managed. The end result is both painting as a material object that emits information, and painting as a flow of information governed by materials.
Participating artists are: Avantika Bawa / Brett Callero / Lauren Clay / Craig Drennen / Fred Jesser / Jessica Schnebel / Michael Scoggins / Eric Standley / Alexis Terry / Curated by Craig Drennen. Read more about the artists in:
 Painting the Transmission of Information
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