New Paintings by Tristan Eaton: July 25th-August 1st Opening July 25th 7-11pm

The Conspiracy of Lightness curated by Liam Everett

The Conspiracy of Lightness curated by Liam Everett

The Conspiracy of Lightness

Rut Himmelsbach

Rene Strudel

Reinhard Fichtner

Lionel Maunz

Bridget Donahue with Peter Schuette

Phi Nguyen

Marc Hundley

Erik Lindman

curated by Liam Everett

July 11th-24th

Opening July 11th 7-11pm

C.R.E.A.M. Projects

99 Franklin Street. Greenpoint

c.r.e.a.m.projects@gmail.com

The sound of the image or the speed of it can be elusive to measure. Especially at a diagonal or when it’s moving backwards as some pictures do. When the image fidgets and hides or refuses to respond. When its heavy or when its light. When its heavy with light and when its lightened with heaviness.

In the making process before the image is presentable is perhaps when its truth is at its most vulnerable, beautiful and awkward state. At this phase it belongs to the present, not yet victim to the fables of history and future. And the artist can be careful at this point, operating slowly with attention and with intention.

It’s impossible not to lie as all art makers do, either to themselves or to the viewer who is more or less doing the same, that is deceiving him or her self in their relation to the image or object that they are confronted with. When one asks us to see their work, what is meant by the word ‘see’? How should we see it: all at once or bit-by-bit, from the inside or the outside?

Does the photograph of the tree serve as proof of its existence or that of the photographers? Or does it rather function as a kind of certificate of death?

There is the possibility that all this elusiveness or deception that thepresented image provokes is intentional. It’s most probable that this intent to deceive is surely only fabricated on the sub conscious level. A conspiracy formed in the quiet of the collective self as an elaborate and complex system of protection. The real that protects its self from the abstract and the abstract that protects itself from the real.

The eight artists participating in this exhibition all offer complex responses and/or reactions to the ambiguous nature and power of the visual as a medium of communication. Each hypnotized by the intimate and absurd act of manipulating the image as a way to navigate the vast system of veils thickly webbed throughout contemporary society.

-Liam Everett