Ian Myers: The cut worm forgives the plow

“Build up, tear down, compress, compact, weed-through, dig up again, repeat — wait for something to happen. A stray mark given form, given place, set adrift. Painting is a kind of devotional act, so is looking, or looking closely— searching, really, but a goalless search, bracketed by impulse on one end and revelation, though more often failure, on the other. The material conventions of early Christian iconography— egg tempera, rabbit-skin gesso— add loft to this search and beg that perhaps that material opulence was really just compensating for something; gold-plated doubt; lapis-shrouded hole. Cut it down and it still grows.”
–Ian Myers

CHART is pleased to present Ian Myers: The cut worm forgives the plow, a solo exhibition of ten 10×8-inch panels in egg tempera on marble dust ground, on view in the gallery’s lower-level PROJECTION space.