Current Exhibition:
Fractal Landscape: Re-constructions from Tuscany, the Hudson Valley and South America
May 11 - June 17, 2012

Chace-Randall Gallery
The exhibition is comprised of wood cuts and mixed media unique works on paper.
A reception for the Artist is Saturday, May 12, 5-7pm

Other Gus with Sparrows in the Pond: El otro Gus con golondrinas en el lago, 2011-12
Digital photograph, woodcut, drawing, silk-screen.
47 ½” x 35 ½”, unique work on paper.

Rimer Cardillo celebrates the ancient art of the woodcut and fuses it with modern photographic technology, silk-screens and drawing. His mixed media works incorporate imagery of his Hudson Valley pond and estancias of South America. His woodcuts visit and revisit the hills of Chianti, Tuscany.

The exhibition, curated by gallery director Zoe Randall, plays on the idea of serial art, highlighting subtle variations in seemingly alike imagery, reworkings that require close scrutiny to observe. This presentation suggests the second guessings or aesthetic reconsiderations that are a large part of Cardillo's process, yet in a much more accessible manner than the workings of the artist's mind. It brings to mind the relationship between kataphatic language (the language of affirmation) and apophatic language (the language of second guessing or negation) that critic Katie Ford notes in Elizabeth Bishop's poetry, for example: how the more closely Bishop's imagery examines something, the more it tends to escape what the image has just made of it. These are the "fractal landscapes" of Cardillo, a world where, borrowing from Ford, "visibility is poor" and the political ever present--Cardillo acutely aware of the demise of indigenous people and landscape around the world, "re-constructing" in artistic terms.

Chace-Randall Gallery is located at 49 Main Street, Andes, NY.
Gallery Hours: Friday - Sunday and Holiday Mondays 11 - 5, and by appointment.
For more information call 845.676.4901 or visit www.chacerandallgallery.com.