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Romer Young Gallery
May 16 - June 14, 2014Info
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http://www.romeryounggallery.com/
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(415) 550-7483
For his fourth solo show at Romer Young Gallery, Brooklyn-based artist Deric Carner has created a new body of work inspired by gay literature. The candid writings of Andre Gide, Ned Rorem, Kevin Bentley, Mercedes de Acosta, Jean Genet, Kevin Killian, Brad Gooch and John Rechy serve as starting points for abstracted figurative works on the theme of liberated desire. Continuing his intermedia approach to image and icon, Carner presents a provocative collection of scanner based prints in a site-specific installation.
Carner creates his hybrid work by transforming existing imagery through cutting, tearing, folding and overpainting. He uses vintage beefcake, contemporary tumblr porn, generic jpegs, and his own photography and studio materials to assemble images directly on the scanner bed and in photoshop. His synthetic process and evident mark-making produces a fresh and personal take on the indexical imagery. Carner enters the materials of his—at times, alienated—cultural history and links it with a narrative outlook of poetic sexual radicality. The writers he has chosen for these homages express a range of advanced positions relating to promiscuity, creativity, S/M, and gender queering.
The need to re-appropriate the gay body/narrative in the image of glamour, freedom, artistry—in the face of contemporary assimilation, unimaginativeness and risk-aversion—is not to promote irresponsibility or nostalgia, but to delight in possibility and playfulness. This is an attitude and message relevant to anyone who enjoys a perverse and unrestricted approach to living.
Deric Carner (b. 1975) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He received an MFA at the Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, NL, 2005; with a concurrent MA from the University of Plymouth, UK, 2005, and a BFA in Studio Art from the University of California at Santa Cruz, 1998. He has participated in group and solo exhibitions including: Silhouette, Blackburn 20/20, New York 2013; The Light that Failed, Romer Young Gallery, San Francisco, 2012; Telefone Sem Fio: The Word-Things of Augusto de Campos Revisited, EFA Project Space, New York, 2011; Power to the People, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, 2011; Hypnotic Show, Artists Space, New York, 2009; and BMW, IX Baltic Triennial of International Art, CAC Vilnius, 2005. Carner received a SFAC grant on 2008 and a MacDowell Fellowship in 2009.