Artist: Dave Miko
Exhibition title: On some future
Venue: Lodos, Mexico City
Date: September 18 – November 15, 2015
Photography: images copyright and courtesy of the artist and Lodos, Mexico City
We humans, through all our senses, constantly experience weather. No matter what, it’s always there. It’s strange how something massively experienced, an ordinary topic, is contemplated as informal discourse. Small talk. And how do we speak of something that is always there no matter what? With short sentences, short pauses, and simple adjectives.
The paintings in this show are all worked over the 8×8 inch surfaces of lightweight aluminum sheets. Traces of sandpaper and fingerprints are visible in areas where the bare aluminum stand untreated. Through scrutinous looking one might notice the impressions of the brushes’ touch on the oil surfaces. Giving the viewer the possibility of an empathetic experience to the movements of the arm that made them.
All thirteen paintings are individually titled Future Weather.
Dave Miko, Future Weather (oil barrel), 2015
Dave Miko, Future Weather, 2015
Dave Miko, Future Weather (flooded desert), 2015
Dave Miko, Future Weather (bird bats), 2015
Dave Miko, Future Weather, 2014-2015
Dave Miko, Future Weather (dry grass), 2014
Dave Miko, Future Weather, 2014
Dave Miko, Future Weather, 2015
Dave Miko, Future Weather (cactus flower), 2015
Dave Miko, Future Weather, 2014-2015
Dave Miko, Future Weather, 2015
Dave Miko, Future Weather, 2015
Dave Miko, Future Weather (missing square), 2015