As If A Field Could Become Some Dream at No Place

Artists: Yevgeniya Baras, Jaqueline Cedar, Erin Dunn, Ted Gahl, Kristina Lee, Martin Lukáč, Rebecca Morgan, Keith Allyn Spencer, Michael Swaney, Cody Tumblin

Exhibition title: As If A Field Could Become Some Dream

Curated by: Brian Scott Campbell

Venue: No Place, Columbus, Ohio, US

Date: May 19 – June 15, 2018

Photography: all images copyright and courtesy of the artists and No Place

Across the field a compendium of hallucinatory matter—the field, where things happen: battles, thought, conflict, play, dreams. Am I dreaming? Oh, heaven forbid! An opening in the woods becomes a field where light materializes in the dew above the grass, an open space as if a field could become some dream. “As If,” as much a hypothetical proposition as it is a sarcastic quip. The “field” a repository of transmissions and one-way dispatches. The “field,” an architectural, verdant, pastoral, wide-open, and a clumsy registry of broadcast. “Some Dream,” a kind of fog in which imagery may pass through, eroding particular features and presenting a unique and unwieldy space.

As If A Field Could Become Some Dream is an exhibition featuring the works of ten artists whose practices expand across a range of methodologies. Their works in painting and sculpture, employ a divergent and often outrageously idiosyncratic relationship to imagery and the picture plane. The full-tilt abstraction is often lodged into a dialogue with odd-ball cartoon portraiture and figuration, or within a discreet structural frame. The materiality of each of these works, and surfaces take immediate hold of the viewer, and tether the reduced imagery to a very human touch and organic ligature.

As If A Field Could Become Some Dream, 2018, exhibition view, No Place, Columbus, Ohio

Martin Lukáč, TMNT, 2016, oil on canvas, 200 x 160 cm

Martin Lukáč, TMNT 1, 2016, oil on canvas, 200 x 160 cm

Ted Gahl, Zen, 2018, acrylic on canvas, 16 x 20”

Ted Gahl, Drama, 2018, acrylic on canvas, 16 x 20”

Erin Dunn, Sad Cockalina, 2018, watercolor on canvas, 16×20”

Kristina Lee, Adaption, 2018, oil on canvas, 4 x 5’

Rebecca Morgan, Bad Behavior, 2014, porcelain, 7x6x6”

Yevgeniya Baras, Untitled, 2017, Oil and tile on canvas 16″ x 20″

Yevgeniya Baras, Untitled, 2017, Oil on bedsheet 16″ x 20″

Cody Tumblin, Dreamer (Alborada), 2016-2018, dye and acrylic on cotton, photograph of the sky on cotton, bleach, thread, 50×64”

Jaqueline Cedar, Floated bask, 2017, acrylic on fabric, 66×60″

Keith Allyn Spencer, Find the 2 and you will be kissed tomorrow 55555555555…, 2024, Economy Auto Cover – 1 Layer Dust Cover – Lowest Price – Ready-Fit / Semi Glove Fit fro SUV, Van, and Truck – Fits up to 206 Inches, Rust-Oleum protective paints and coating, 2016 Hyundai Sonata rental car. SIZE: XXXXL