Plato is thrilled to announce Alic Brock‘s solo exhibition, When Shadows Neglect Their Grasp, on view from October 10 by November 15, with a public reception scheduled for Friday, October 10 from 6 to 8pm.
Atlanta-based painter Alic Brock has developed a observe that merges digital manipulation with painterly precision. Brock creates compositions that discover areas between waking and dreaming, recognition and estrangement. Every work begins as a collage of each discovered and private imagery that’s deliberately altered and translated to canvas utilizing airbrush acrylics. Fragments of Americana, cultural icons, and personal reminiscence mingle in peculiar situations the place narrative and which means floor solely on reflection.
Theoretical frameworks of psychoanalysis and movie idea present a conceptual undercurrent for When Shadows Neglect Their Grasp. Jacques Lacan’s orders – Imaginary, Symbolic and Actual, Carl Jung’s notion of the shadow, and Mahreen Junaid’s writing on oneiric cinema, exploring the connection between desires and filmmaking, helped Brock to cohesively relate discovered pictures with these documenting his private experiences.
For Brock, shadows aren’t secondary varieties, however protagonists in their very own proper. Like Peter Pan’s mischievous shadow, they slip freed from their origin, staging their very own dramas throughout the unfolding storylines. As an alternative of presenting mounted situations for the viewers, the work immerse them in illusive states.
Humor and absurdity are central to the environment of When Shadows Neglect Their Grasp. Brock’s work stability wit with unease and coherence with disruption, like a dream that hovers between sense and nonsense, to cite Carl Jung. Finally, these works don’t present a decision. As an alternative, they invite viewers right into a suspended state the place pictures insurgent towards their supposed meanings, shadows overlook their grasp, and tales reveal themselves through extended statement and the viewer’s private expertise.
