PIECE WORK by Garry Noland

Studios Inc is happy to announce, “Piece Work”, a solo exhibition by Garry Noland, opening June 5th.

“Garry Noland focuses on process, on its simplicity, accidents, and sudden complexities. The things that process creates are full of life, are just as much verbs as they are nouns. They charm us with their compelling color and tactility, engaging not just our eyes but our awareness of own embodiment, our associations and memories—even intuitions about our own capabilities.” - Brandan Griffin, author, essayist, who also co-runs New Material Books; excerpt to be published in BOMB Magazine for “Piece Work”

“My studio practice is multi-disciplinary. The one constant is an openness to rough patches, glitches or mistakes. The presence of edges or boundaries between mistakes establishes immediate contextual and formal relationships. Those abutments mime our interaction with art and with each other.  Closer attention is paid to the verbs of making than to the finality of the resulting noun of the object. What happens when something is put next to something else is the thing.

What goes with what? What happens on either side of the line? What’s good and who decides? Sometimes I am the boss of the material but just as often the material, by virtue of chance arrangements, will tell me what needs to be done.

Art puns and mimes the systems and appearances we experience in both the non-human and human parts of nature. The oft-quoted role of the free press is "to afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted". Art's first cousin role, then, is to find the mundane in the grand and the grand in the mundane.” - Garry Noland Artist Statement

Piece Work will debut with an Opening Reception on June 5th from 5 to 8 pm, and will remain on view through August 1st.

An Artist Talk will take place June 20th from 12 to 1 pm, with additional Poetry & Spoken Word event on July 11th from 2 to 4 pm.