ERIN CLULEY GALLERY

Kevin Todora
What, me worry.

november 16 – december 21,2024

Erin Cluley Gallery is pleased to announceWhat, me worry., an exhibition of work byDallas-basedphotographer Kevin Todora. The exhibition will debut new image-based work, including a collaborative work between Todora and Nathan Randall Green, continuing the artist’s exploration of photography’s sculptural qualities through image manipulation and illusionary set design. In his work, Todoradisruptsthe perfectionist nature of images with full-bleed compositions that emphasizegesture, line, and color. What, me worry.presents innovative image-based work expanding the artist’s aesthetic and conceptual vision of photography’s future.Over the course of his career, Kevin Todora has expanded the canon of reappropriated photography, focusing less on the sociopolitical contexts as with late 20thcentury artists, and more on the image’s physical surface and presentation. Todora’ stake on conceptual photography work deviates from other artists in its playful nature and incorporation of Pop Art aesthetics—the surfaces in What, me worry.turn and cave in free-form motions printed with painterly images.

With a limited use of digital manipulation, the artist’s photographs utilize staging to create his work’s complex patterning and layered textures. Printed on MDO board, a type of wood typically used in signage, Todora’s work treats photographs as citations, then adapted onto industrial substrates. In his latest solo exhibition, Imp, a sculpture with a mustard yellow and blue argyle pattern,juxtaposes its print with an organic, playfully lumpy frame. Upon closer look, the surface reveals intentionally rugged brushwork—blending the lines between painting and its lens-captured subject, Imp disturbs the viewer’s perception of staged photography. What, me worry. showcases Kevin Todora’s newest collection of image-based sculptures. The artist’s work plays with cultural and artistic conceptions of the photographic canon, incorporating expressionistic texture into abstract compositions. A collaborative work between Todora and concurrently exhibiting painter Nathan Randall Green, brings out the innovations both artists bring to their mediums. What, me worry.presents the artist’s clearest conception of photography’s limit and changing place in contemporary life and art. What, me worry.will be the artist’s fourth solo presentation with Erin Cluley Gallery. It will be exhibited concurrently with Full of Songan exhibition of work by Brooklyn-based artist Nathan Randall Green.

 Nathan Randall Green,
Full of Song

november 16 – december 21,2024

Erin Cluley Gallery is pleased to announce Full of Song, an exhibition of work by Bronx-based artist Nathan Randall Green. The exhibition will debut new paintings combining techniques of paper collage, drawing, and sculpture. Featuring graphical representations of cosmological diagrams, Green’s work constructs an abstracted language of the universe. Full of Song calibrates the vastness of the cosmos to a human-scale: with their organic shapes, these paintings explore our collective understanding and expression of the natural environment.Following a visit to the McDonald Observatory in Fort Davis, TX, Green became interested in cosmology, specifically diagrams tracking the movement and development of celestial systems. This diagrammatic representation of large, unknowable vast structures influenced the artist’s work: through repeating symbols of the sun and other stars, Green expressed the celestial into visual language. Following the birth of his children, the artist became  interested in how representations of outer space, through images and diagrams, can mimic those of the human body—specifically prenatal sonograms. The paintings in Full of Song, translate these representations into the illusionary space of art.Green begins his process by building up organic compositions through layered paper pulp and collaging techniques. The rough, oblong shapes he creates mimic the natural textures of biological matter or eroded rock. Paintings like Our Star, 6 Skies (Conglomerate)portray the sun as it is seen from a human perspective, at different times of day and night. Green’s color palettes and compositions are developed through an intuitive process intending to express emotion through a quasi-scientific framing—bodies at a cosmic scale then become repositories for the artist’s intimate feelings of awe and communion with nature. Full of Song will be the artist’s first solo presentation with Erin Cluley Gallery. It will be exhibited concurrently an exhibition of work by Dallas-based artist Kevin Todora.

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