Artist: Eric Veit
Exhibition title: Quarter
Venue: Rear Window, New York, US
Date: September 30 – November 4, 2016
Photography: all images copyright and courtesy of the artist and Rear Window
It’s been said that 3 is preferable to 4—odd numbers diffuse our comparative impulse—but here we begin with an unforgiving symmetry. A numerical logic stacks like a well-tempered nesting doll: one show, two “parts” to each work, four works, 8 parts total. Each work is a weathered 2×4 displaying two elements in carved pockets on either extremity. They appear as a quartet of glittering outstretched hands, or an assortment of levels.
Each six-foot span might be seen as articulating a conjunct ion: this a nd that, whereby each element is one half of a whole pulled perpetually apart, held literally at arm’s length. Value accrues here in a distended arithmetic of discrete elements. But there is another grammar at pla y: this versus that. The elements fall prey to a combative contingency. Thesis and antithesis, composed in deadlock.
-Josephine Graf
Eric Veit is based in New York. Recent exhibitions include Exo Exo, Paris; Jack Hanley, New York; Tomorrow, New York; Plaza Mercado, Santa Fe; Signal, New York; Parisian Laundry, Montreal; SpazioA, Pistoia; Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia. He is the founder and director of Bodega, a gallery in New York.
Eric Veit, Gold and White, 2016
Glass, brass, gold, shellac, plaster, iron, wood
Eric Veit, Basket and Glass, 2016
Nylon, wax, shellac, enamel, aluminum, paper, mica, glass, wood
Eric Veit, Beetle and Cage, 2016
Steel, zinc, abalone, resin, aluminum, plastic, glorious beetle, wood
Eric Veit, Lemon and Toe, 2016
Cumin, lemon, paper, plaster, wood
Eric Veit, Lemon and Toe, 2016
Cumin, lemon, paper, plaster, wood
Eric Veit, Lemon and Toe, 2016
Cumin, lemon, paper, plaster, wood
Eric Veit, Basket and Glass, 2016
Nylon, wax, shellac, enamel, aluminum, paper, mica, glass, wood
Eric Veit, Basket and Glass, 2016
Nylon, wax, shellac, enamel, aluminum, paper, mica, glass, wood
Eric Veit, Beetle and Cage, 2016
Steel, zinc, abalone, resin, aluminum, plastic, glorious beetle, wood
Eric Veit, Beetle and Cage, 2016
Steel, zinc, abalone, resin, aluminum, plastic, glorious beetle, wood
Eric Veit, Gold and White, 2016
Glass, brass, gold, shellac, plaster, iron, wood
Eric Veit, Gold and White, 2016
Glass, brass, gold, shellac, plaster, iron, wood