Friday, May 4, 2012
Arts / Visual Art Did you see Heaven?
Posted by Elly Fishman on 05.04.12 at 07:11 AM
Chia founded PeregrineProgram as a place where artists could create work in response to a physical gallery space. The idea for “Spectra,” beyond his talk with Heilmann, came from his student Jack Holström Schneider. “Jack had made this painting Hot, and for some reason I found the colors just exhilarating,” says Chia. “The eight-foot work has amazing hues, aggressive scale. The paint application was hand-brushed, not air-brushed. It reminded me of the Heilmann conversation.”
For “Spectra,” Chia selected pieces that play with color and scale—many of them are abstract—in order to tease out various meanings. He chose both student artists and more established artists as a way to foster cross-generational conversations. “One can either make interesting links between the pieces or choose to think the show does nothing, answering the title premise in the negative,” says Chia. “I just hope that a viewer will discern the imagistic and evocative qualities of the work.”
The second installment of the exhibition, "Did You See Heaven: WYSIWYG," opens next fall.
Sun 5/6, 4-7 PM, PeregrineProgram, 3311 W. Carroll, #119.
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