BGuthrie Photos: DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2015A Winter Exhibit: Dean Byington: Buildings Without Shadows

DC -- American University -- Katzen Arts Center -- 2015A Winter Exhibit: Dean Byington: Buildings Without Shadows:

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Description of Pictures: Dean Byington: Buildings Without Shadows
January 24 through March 15, 2015.
Composed of a dense profusion of original and appropriated images, Dean Byington's paintings recall surrealist collage and the assemblage and psychedelic aesthetic that began in the late 1950s and early 1960s in the San Francisco Bay area where he has lived and worked since the mid-1980s. They envelope the viewer in an enigmatic narrative that hovers between history, mythology, sociopolitical observations, and autobiography.

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. KATBYI_150124_014.JPG: Dean Byington Buildings Without Shadows
2. KATBYI_150124_056.JPG: Dean Byington's dizzying constructions are made through an elaborate and evolving process that employs collage, drawing, digital compositing, and finally, silkscreen. The canvases are amalgams of both time and material process. At their root, his paintings utilize a type of collage process, one that he invented through years of trial and error. Dean scours antique books for engraved illustrations. From this scavenged archive, he cuts tens of thousands of tiny sections to be taped together in a new, impossibly dense enigmatic landscape. His process is born from an interest in science, history, architecture, and reproduction technologies. The historical technique of engraving is central to his work. Engraving was perfected in the late 1400s and is the precursor to etching and subsequent photo mechanical methods of image making. It is done by incising or gouging distinctive hatched lines into a metal plate, which is then inked and printed with pressure. To the contemporary eye, the incised mark-making style of the engraving is evocative of a bygone era. Dean absorbs this stylistic motif for precisely this reason. As viewers of visual images we digest thousands of visual signals from a single image. Each signal reveals something specific to the image's origin. The stylistic choice of engraving is a Trojan horse. We are comforted by the nostalgic familiarity of its appearance. Engraving has earned a place of confidence and trust with the viewer. It is identified with artistic bedrock like Albrecht Durer and Rembrandt and is the very technique that the United States Treasury uses to create currency. -- Excerpt from Entropy Has No Opposite, by Griff Williams
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