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Email PageWyatt Nash 2005
November 18, 2005- December 18, 2005
Wyatt Nash
Roebling Hall
606 W 26th StRoebling Hall is extremely pleased to present the New York premiere of the sculptural works of Wyatt Nash.
Cranking up the visual volume on quotidian objects, Nash creates humorous and sculpturally dynamic works from otherwise ordinary objects. Hand crafted and cast in resin, Nash’s sculptures posses a sweetly cartoonish quality, as if they were three-dimensional static animations. Frozen at the very moment of heightened hilarity and in the most dynamic positions possible, Nash’s sculptures trade on innocent wit and a certain formal looseness that make them “pop” in visually unsuspecting ways.
In Encore for One, Nash creates a rock totem of a broken baby blue Stratocaster jutting skyward from a tipped amp. The looping of the cord from guitar to wah wah pedal to amp and the zigzag chaos of the broken strings create a wacky yet elegant linear system between all the elements in the sculpture. In another work, titled This is how it ended three seconds before beginning, Nash toys with the concept of the frozen moment by making a sculpture of a film projector and its projection. The absurdity of making a static sculpture of the idea of a projector, whose very essence, of course, is based on the moving image, is further enhanced by the fact that the film is over before it even begins, as Nash paints into the sculpted screen the film countdown frozen between frames.
Full of humor and sculptural verve, Nash’s subjects echo the early handmade pop of Claes Oldenburg’s “Store” sculptures, while juggling the conceits of contemporary culture. To paraphrase George Orwell, a joke is like a mental rebellion. Wyatt Nash’s sculptures share in this spirit of rebellion while making a joke of the good sense built into the familiar expectations we have of the most quotidian objects.
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