Transplants
Works by Ben Venom, Jon Casey Clary, and Kevin Earl Taylor
Opening Reception: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 7-10pm
Heart Wine Bar and Art Gallery is proud to introduce Transplants, an exhibition of the perspectives of three artists, Ben Venom, John Casey Clary, and Kevin Earl Taylor, and their illustrious journey to the Bay Area. The show will explore a collaborative impression of the natural world and its relation to the uninhibited state of the human mind; a purely organic experience. We at Heart look forward to sharing this event with you on May 12, 2010, from 7pm to 10pm.
Ben Venom is a self-proclaimed “visual commentator on the unique culture of the Southern United States.” Perhaps this makes him an expert on the lifestyle engulfed by Southern comforts. Nevertheless, at this current point in time, Venom is a Transplant from the down-home dirty south to the wind-whipping dirty streets of San Francisco. In the Transplants show, Venom will employ a multi-faceted collaboration of elements on screen-print, with cyanotype, tea, and resin, taking a nod to nostalgia; the collection brings to mind 1978’s Michael Cimino film, “Deer Hunter” with Robert De Niro. Ben Venom’s works are deeply rooted in Southern culture, as “politics, racing, and heavy metal” all play an integral role in his ever-expanding opus of creativity.
Jon Casey Clary explores the visual limits of the monotonous. It is the place we call home, the surrounding of our everyday in which Clary evokes such mysticism in his works. Clary takes advantage of the tools he has been given, whether it be a brush, a camera, or a computer, and harnesses their every worth; redirecting the gift of his influences, he can expound a world all his own. In his compositions, Jon Casey Clary draws forth the curious milieu of a celestial world, and reminds the viewer of all that is so unattainable in reality.
Kevin Earl Taylor extracts from the ephemeral, paying homage to the “chaotic and incomprehensible” of the “human paradigm” as it relates to the natural state of being. He has exhibited paintings around the world and is published both nationally and internationally. For Transplants, three artists will come together from different ends of the spectrum, employing an intimate and somewhat vulnerable migration to the Bay Area as means of self-expression. Kevin Earl Taylor’s works examine life-like creatures in a morbid, dream-like state, utilizing colors that draw from a personal intimacy with the everyday natural world in order to animate “a parody…offering visual depiction of this all at one grotesque, lovely, and hilarious production.”
Check out some more pictures from our photo shoot for Transplants at Heart.
