William Crump / Gathering Ground at Station Independent Projects
William Crump Gathering Ground
October 17th- November 18th, 2012
Opening Reception: October 17th , 6-9 pm
Rise After Rise Bow the Phantoms Behind Me, 2012
William Crump / Gathering Ground opens at Station Independent Projects October 17th, 2012.
William Crump’s new works mine themes of spiritual rebirth, reconstruction and longing. Gathering Ground examines the overlap of Crump’s current body of work with his earlier visual language and influences from art history. Here, the self-referential journey of the artist begins to encroach on previous imagined narratives, in which Crump peers across the chasm between reality and fantasy. Crump’s work alludes to ghosts, guardians and spirits that appear at particular intervals along the passage of time to identify and remind us of our original intended purpose.
Citing his influences for this recent body of work, Crump references the artist Monet in both his palette and form. Having revisited Monet’s cathedral paintings at the Musée d’Orsay, all grouped together and under glass, he was struck with not only their beauty, but reminded of the shift they represent in art history. This art historical shift was a refocusing on how the artist perceived the subject rather than on direct representation or on light, shadow and the senses.
In reexamining his work and his reasons for becoming an artist, Crump begins with the idea of literal reconstruction of materials, and the suggested reconstruction of nature and the human spirit. In his ongoing collage and drawing works, horses, arrowheads, gems, and phantoms all coalesce and speak to how we identify with our individual experiences, the ghost in the machine, and our elusive and shifting essences.
About the Gallery:
Station Independent Projects organizes exhibitions and events with a focus on artist advocacy. Station Independent Projects specializes in discovering new emerging and mid-career artists that are not represented by galleries and organizes shows to connect artists to broader audiences.
Before opening the gallery in the Lower East Side, Station Independent Projects had organized exhibitions in the New York City area for over ten years with numerous New York galleries, art fairs and non-profits.
Station Independent Projects | 164 Suffolk Street | New York | NY | 10002
