by Patricia Frischer
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| Jonathon Schipper |
Crash
and bang are the first sounds I heard entering TECHNE Art Center for the Unknown
Frontier exhibition. But this was not an accident. It was sound coming
from the falling works by sculptor Jonathan Schipper. In Schipper’s
world, time isn’t just the ticking of a clock—it’s a sly accomplice. He makes
you watch the world fall apart… slowly, artfully, and with impeccable timing.
The framed art in the center of his wall, lifts straight out of the wall, a
mechanical arm emerges with a life-like finger which then rotates and upsets
the other works, one by one. Is that central work of mirror image cathedrals the
robot winner of the wall? Maybe or maybe Schipper just has a fondness for reminding
people that time will have its way with us all.
The
humor of this work, literally knocking the art off the walls, set the tone for
this show and I found myself looking for humor and finding some in much of the
art on display. Hurrah…beauty and humor are valuable commodities in today’s
world and we need as much as we can find.
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| Jonathon Schipper |
Jonathon Schipper
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Jen Hitchings creates a meditation on the age-old romance between humankind and nature—a relationship as mystical, mythological, and codependent as any doomed love affair. |
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Tim Murdoch art is hand (or foot)-worked, repurposed, and lightly seasoned with humor and exists as aesthetic public mischief. |
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| Tim Murdoch- detail |
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| Tim Murdoch |
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Will Hutnick is looking through a queer, ecologically tuned lens that refuses to play nicely with binaries. |
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| Will Hutnick |
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Delilah Strunkel explores imaginative micro-worlds and patterns—those hidden little universes you didn’t know were lurking inside you, like houseguests who never left. |
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Frank Webster paints the natural world the way a poet might
transcribe an avalanche—delicately, yet with a sense you may not get out alive. |
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| Kate Stone's works is perfectly timed for Halloween. A simple piece of beige carpet, but look close and it is so creepy and funny at the same time as the teeth are very similar to the pile of the rug. |
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| Kate Stone - detail |
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Christopher Lin is building the future’s ruins while we’re still tripping over today’s. |
Christopher Lin
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David Kramer takes the chatter in his head: disclaimers, distractions, and self-deprecating jokes that elbow their way onto the surface of his hooked rugs. |
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Briana Miyoko Stanley Lane has given us part memory palace, part obstacle course, and part séance for the things we’ve lost. In short, she has built a world you can walk through—though she might gently suggest you watch your step. |
Briana Miyoko Stanley Lane
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Hwang (Bo) Kim has dabbled in everything—drawing, assemblage, printmaking, photography—before settling down with oil paint, the way someone might finally surrender to sensible shoes. So comfortable, reliable and and you want them to last forever. |
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| Chuck Thomas, is owner and curator of this show and it is always a thrill to see his studio open and the work on view. I find the motion and the color in his work, just pure joy. |
Unknown
Frontier
TECHNE Art Center
Curated by Chuck Thomas
On view until Dec 5
Other
artists featured include artists Jeff Feld, Sylvia Fernandez, Nathanael
Flink, Jason Clay Lewis.
Thursday, Friday, Saturday 1-6pm
1609
Ord Way, Oceanside, CA 92056
