Curated by Mel Prest
Featuring Kim Bennett, Randy Colosky, Sydney Cohen, Arthur Huang, Lorinda Knight, Michael Namkung, Xi Nan, Joyce Nojima, Sandra Ono, James Sansing, Kirk Stoller, Amy Trachtenberg, Ven Voisey, Nancy White, Victor Yañez-Lazcano
November 7 - December 4, 2019
Fundamental Complications at Root Division
Curated by Mel Prest
Featuring Kim Bennett, Randy Colosky, Sydney Cohen, Arthur Huang, Lorinda Knight, Michael Namkung, Xi Nan, Joyce Nojima, Sandra Ono, James Sansing, Kirk Stoller, Amy Trachtenberg, Ven Voisey, Nancy White, Victor Yañez-Lazcano
November 7 - December 4, 2019
Fundamental Complications engages obsession, fallibility, disintegration, and confusion. Each artist has unique methodologies that have evolved over significant time, resulting in peculiar abstractions created from the inside out. These practices result in a precariousness, and potential disintegration. This exhibition will explore the tension of the physical, exquisite, and ephemeral existing simultaneously. The desire to create this work transmits an obsession and humanity that results in non-objective pieces arising from a practice or process.
Memory Walkshop
Led by Arthur Huang and hosted by The Walk Discourse
Sunday, November 10, 2019 at 2 pm
For the Memory Walkshop hosted by The Walk Discourse in collaboration with Root Division, Arthur Huang will lead a walk from the gallery and revisit some of the walks he made during his month long visit to the Bay Area this past April. During the course of the walk, he will talk with participants about his studio practice involving everyday memory and the various ways in which he documents different aspects of his everyday life and utilizes aspects of scientific methodology within his practice. The Memory Walkshop conversations will focus on two ongoing projects — the Memory Walks Project and the Daily Drawings Project. He will also share objects and documents from his studio practice to connect them with the experience of remembering and walking.
More about the project and artist:
Taking a cue from place cells and other specialized neurons responsible for spatial memory, he started working on the Memory Walks Project in 2012. Utilizing the concept of place cells to explore moments of transit in his daily life, Arthur began drawing different walks that he took from memory on various substrates including eggshells and acrylic discs. The Daily Drawings Project began as a way to utilize the in-between moments of daily life. Huang makes these semi-automatic drawings while commuting on trains. Since the project’s inception in 2015, he has generated more than 1,000 drawings.
In 2009, Arthur Huang moved from Oakland, CA to Tokyo, Japan where he currently lives and work in Tokyo as a researcher and artist. In 1994, he earned a B.A. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the University of California at Berkeley. In 2001, he earned a M.F.A. in Painting & Printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design. Arthur Huang explores conscious and unconscious memory along the spectrum between science and visual arts.
All images courtesy of Kiana Honarmand
