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Post Times is pleased to announce Tales from the Picture People, a solo exhibition by Andrew Chapman.
Chapman’s work exists in the realm of the uncanny. While evoking the history of abstraction, the work also summons the nuances and contradictions inherent to the early inception of the photographic image. Each of these mediums — painting and photography — have had an immeasurable pull on the human psyche towards the need for decipherment. Within those inquiries belies a deep web of beliefs, opticality, and the superimposition of meaning.
For Chapman, painting is an emblem of a resolute, idiosyncratic record. At once both an ineffable yet materially grounded object, there is an aspect of his work that is almost forensic in nature. It wants to be linked; to a time, to a thing, to a place, to an idea. The surface properties of the works are often akin to the emulsion of a printed photograph, where the information and ground become fused. This is achieved through…
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Post Times is pleased to announce Tales from the Picture People, a solo exhibition by Andrew Chapman.
Chapman’s work exists in the realm of the uncanny. While evoking the history of abstraction, the work also summons the nuances and contradictions inherent to the early inception of the photographic image. Each of these mediums — painting and photography — have had an immeasurable pull on the human psyche towards the need for decipherment. Within those inquiries belies a deep web of beliefs, opticality, and the superimposition of meaning.
For Chapman, painting is an emblem of a resolute, idiosyncratic record. At once both an ineffable yet materially grounded object, there is an aspect of his work that is almost forensic in nature. It wants to be linked; to a time, to a thing, to a place, to an idea. The surface properties of the works are often akin to the emulsion of a printed photograph, where the information and ground become fused. This is achieved through…
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