BUCKET RIDER GALLERY announces Tristes Tropiques, our first solo exhibition of new collages by Stephen Eichhorn, in Galleries One and recent paintings by Katie Herzog in Gallery Two.
Chicago, IL, June 13, 2008 – Bucket Rider celebrates the summer with a series of new works by Stephen Eichhorn and Katie Herzog. We present new hand cut collage works by Stephen Eichhorn. in Gallery One and recent paintings by L.A.-based artist Katie Herzog in Gallery Two.
Chicago-based artist Stephen Eichhorn creates delicate paper collages from reproductions of foliage (palm fronds, grasses, leaves and flowers) cut by hand mining a variety of sources including National Geographic magazines and the dead stock of 70’s and 80’s wall coverings. He reassembles these elements into something outside of the reality of the natural world. Formally transferring the simplest elements of the pastoral into conceptual sculpture, he takes a cue from theoretical or invisible architecture, creating another created world, wholly existing on its own terms and with its own visual language. The final product eerily retains a sense of its origins: his constructions feel as if they could exist in reality but clearly do not. They simultaneously offer a vestige of the world around us while also acting as a reminder of the way that we mediate every part of it into something that is our own.
Katie Herzog creates luscious, painterly canvases employing multiple surfaces and playing with perspective. Her paintings in Gallery Two were created while the artist was working towards her degree in library science, working as a librarian in San Ardo, California where she interacted with children’s groups. Her paintings operate as psychological narratives depicting scenes of enrapture and the struggle to communicate and connect.
Katie Herzog lives and works in Los Angeles. She received her M.F.A. from UC-San Diego and participated in the Skowhegan program in 2007. She has been part of group exhibitions at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise in New York and Western Projects in LA, and will have a solo exhibition at Circus Gallery in L.A. this fall.
