May 2012
JASON YATES: All We Ever Wanted Was Everything
May 5 - June 30, 2012
May 5 - June 30, 2012
For images of the exhibition, please scroll down.
Barbara Davis Gallery proudly announces the inaugural solo-exhibition for Jason Yates, All We Ever Wanted Was Everything, opening Saturday, May 12, 2012, with an artist's reception from 6:30pm - 8:30pm.
Yates marks his first solo-exhibition in Houston with a new series of paintings, sculptures, and site-specific works. Yates' meticulous and nuanced work traffics in the vocabulary of control and our preoccupation with time; in the marking of the beginning and the projecting of the end. Yates is interested in the space that exists between these moments. His meticulous paintings use repetition to explore the abstract space where our concept of linear time breaks down, is resurrected, and breaks down once more. The constant repetition of line and pattern act as a way to mark the passage of time, to meditate the ebb and flow of action and inaction. Reinforcing this idea, are Yates' "Monk Box" sculptures. His series of simply constructed boxes work in concert with the paintings. Where the paintings meditate the passage of time, the boxes become the place of meditation. Yates' site-specific installations become three-dimensional manifestations of his paintings with each element acting as a sculptural tick marking a continuous, irregular cycle.
About the Artist:
Jason Yates was born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1972, and currently lives and works in Los Angeles. He received his BFA from the University of Michigan and his MFA from Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California. His solo exhibitions have included Circus Gallery, Hollywood, California; 2445 Ceasar Chavez, Los Angeles, California; Fingered Gallery, Brooklyn, New York; The Main Gallery, Las Vegas, Nevada; Del Mar Gallery, Art Center, Pasadena, California; and Urban Park Gallery, Detroit, Michigan. He has been included in group exhibitions in Mexicali, Mexico; Geffen Contemporary, Los Angeles, California; San Francisco, California; Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibits (LACE), Los Angeles, California, and he opens a new exhibition at Land of Tomorrow, in Louisville, Kentucky, May 2012.
For Jason's review by Houston Press, click here.
For Jason's review by Arts and Culture Magazine, click here.
For Jason's review by Artforum, click here.
Yates marks his first solo-exhibition in Houston with a new series of paintings, sculptures, and site-specific works. Yates' meticulous and nuanced work traffics in the vocabulary of control and our preoccupation with time; in the marking of the beginning and the projecting of the end. Yates is interested in the space that exists between these moments. His meticulous paintings use repetition to explore the abstract space where our concept of linear time breaks down, is resurrected, and breaks down once more. The constant repetition of line and pattern act as a way to mark the passage of time, to meditate the ebb and flow of action and inaction. Reinforcing this idea, are Yates' "Monk Box" sculptures. His series of simply constructed boxes work in concert with the paintings. Where the paintings meditate the passage of time, the boxes become the place of meditation. Yates' site-specific installations become three-dimensional manifestations of his paintings with each element acting as a sculptural tick marking a continuous, irregular cycle.
About the Artist:
Jason Yates was born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1972, and currently lives and works in Los Angeles. He received his BFA from the University of Michigan and his MFA from Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California. His solo exhibitions have included Circus Gallery, Hollywood, California; 2445 Ceasar Chavez, Los Angeles, California; Fingered Gallery, Brooklyn, New York; The Main Gallery, Las Vegas, Nevada; Del Mar Gallery, Art Center, Pasadena, California; and Urban Park Gallery, Detroit, Michigan. He has been included in group exhibitions in Mexicali, Mexico; Geffen Contemporary, Los Angeles, California; San Francisco, California; Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibits (LACE), Los Angeles, California, and he opens a new exhibition at Land of Tomorrow, in Louisville, Kentucky, May 2012.
For Jason's review by Houston Press, click here.
For Jason's review by Arts and Culture Magazine, click here.
For Jason's review by Artforum, click here.
