SUPER FOG
9 Great Jones St, New York, NY - 2014
Artists: Beverly Acha, Mike Ambron, Romina Meric, Dustin Metz, Alan Prazniak
Curator: Kati Gegenheimer
Super fog is a little known weather phenomenon -
Impossible to predict.
In foggy conditions, SLOW DOWN.
You never know how long it will last.
In the spirit of oncoming heat and humidity mixed with increasing awareness of our unpredictable global weather conditions, a show of paintings founded on the premise of a weather phenomenon is nothing short of relevant. SUPER FOG is a an unpredictable and fleeting “pop-up” show featuring emerging artists with a knack for the phenomenological, the atmospheric, the thick, the impenetrable, the immersive, and possibly most importantly the most sensitive in sense perception. The aura of these paintings, for me, can best be likened to looking back through your eyes into your interior self: something that at first is a haze but becomes more clear as you stop, slow down, and focus.
SUPER FOG is unstable at its’ core. It can dissipate just as quickly as it miraculously accumulates. SUPER FOG is born out of an alchemical reaction in the atmosphere which seems to always be the case with a good painting: all of the stars align, so to speak. In the science of a SUPER FOG, smoke and ash bond with humidity, forming droplets around each speck of ash floating in the air. As the droplets multiply, the smoke turns into an impenetrable mix of fog and smoke: SUPER FOG. This seems like a perfect parallel to hand grasping brush to paint touching canvas while colors touch each other forming a surface that seems to have finite and infinite space. It is said that when SUPER FOG forms, it forms “an almost solid wall with visibility reduced to near zero.” For me, these paintings mimic that effect – the view of anything beyond the paintings is reduced to near zero when my vision is enveloped by them.
- exhibition text by Kati Gegenheimer
