new.shiver: Impermanence
December 5, 2024 – January 11, 2025
Satchel Projects is pleased to present Impermanence, an exhibition of works on found paper by the anonymous artist known as new.shiver. The show will be on view from December 5, 2024 through January 11, 2025. This is the second solo exhibition of the artist’s works at Satchel Projects, and follows their solo show at Tibor de Nagy in spring of 2023.
Produced in parallel with the ongoing body of work known as The Elders, the works in Impermanence provide a contextual counterpoint. Much like their thickly-painted cousins, these micro-works on playing cards and paint chips reflect a deep engagement with both the materials at hand and the surrounding environment. While the Elders were slowly built up via a gradual process of accumulation, these paper-based works reflect nimble experimentation, allowing for broad variation and responsiveness to the momentary.
The use of found paper opens a space for the atmospheric and ethereal, the pictorial, the geometric and the linear. Paint is applied freely -- in quick and glancing strokes, in layered washes and skeins, in drips and dendritic pressings. A brush stroke wanders into the field, wanders out. Soft, feathery passages in clouds of gray convey the drama of an approaching storm.
In the more spatially expansive works, there is a sense of the eternal, of earth and sky, as in the series 10 Days and Nights, a suite of micro-landscapes on trimmed playing cards of varying dimensions, some less than an inch high. Vastness is conveyed through a tiny portal, like viewing the ocean through binoculars, or the night sky through a telescope.
According to the artist, the paint chips and playing cards were chosen “for their specific resonances. A held-in-hand size, widely available.” The paint chips are “fresh, readymade color swatches, infinitely freeing,” while “the playing cards are significantly older than I am. They carry an undercurrent of familial engagement, observations of games.”
Marcel Duchamp famously loved games. In his last painting, Tu m’, he depicted an infinite progression of paint chips receding into the distance. In new.shiver’s hands, the ready-made is reconciled, embraced, imagined-into, and mined for its expressive potential. The everyday, it turns out, contains the possibility of transcendence.
New.shiver is an artist living and working in the United States.
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