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Brian Morris Gallery is pleased to present, “4 LIFE LINES,” featuring the sculptures and drawings of artist Kardash Onnig. “4 Life Lines” offers a glimpse at four decades of work centered around 130 Talismans shaped from clay dug from the artist’s own land in Stanfordville, New York in the summer and fall of 2013. The Talismans are born of a confluence of forces - ideas, traditions, inspirations, elements and transferences experienced. Onnig’s works have developed over a lifetime of “making work”, spanningculture, family, craft, community, language and spiritual advancement.
Each of the spherical, baseball-sized talismans were created by pressing four wooden “tools,” which are in themselves small sculptures, representing Mr. Onnig’s 4-letter sculptural language, simultaneously into the wet clay at different angles focused toward a point of convergence at the center. The impressions transform each talisman into a unique portrait. He then wraps each talisman into small individual bundles, each with a different organic material, (i.e: popcorn, banana peels, orange peels) and finally cast them into a pit fire. They are then displayed on a quilt, consisting of 130 individual patches, upon a table.
The story of the 4 life lines is further elaborated by the artist’s drawings and bronze sculpture also featured in the show. Each drawing and sculpture utilizes the 4 Life Lines and brings them together in different configurations. And each one embodies the infinite possibilities of transference between people, by focusing on the “stress points” that affect the life lines by pushing or pulling on the lines themselves giving them their individual shapes.
This show will mark the first time that Brian Morris Gallery will be utilizing their brand new outdoor sculpture garden. Featured here will be “Haiku #7” made from cedar and cement. This sculpture made in 1992 will serve, in part, as a link to a second solo exhibition featuring painting and drawing.
The gallery is also pleased to present "Noah Post: Recent Works" in our new upstairs project space. For this show, Post, of Millbrook, NY, will exhibit five graphite drawings and one painting. Post’s work is marked by densely layered surfaces. Thin layers of plaster, and washes of thinned acrylic paint function as erasers, leaving evidence of the underpainting. The works are equal amounts drawing and erasing, masking out sections, and creating borders between characters, hinting towards geography and mapping out a personal landscape, as well as the physical or metaphysical human form shown through intuitive line work. Post lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
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Brian Morris Gallery is pleased to present, “4 LIFE LINES,” featuring the sculptures and drawings of artist Kardash Onnig. “4 Life Lines” offers a glimpse at four decades of work centered around 130 Talismans shaped from clay dug from the artist’s own land in Stanfordville, New York in the summer and fall of 2013. The Talismans are born of a confluence of forces - ideas, traditions, inspirations, elements and transferences experienced. Onnig’s works have developed over a lifetime of “making work”, spanningculture, family, craft, community, language and spiritual advancement.
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