Dorota and Keith's show

Shiny Stuff by Keith Nelson

Blue Screen (construction chalk and latex directly on the wall) by Keith Nelson





Auf verlorenem Posten stehen (latex, graphite, ink, glow in the dark paint) by Dorota Biczel Nelson; includes print series trans/form/disperse I



Dorota Biczel Nelson and Keith Nelson both utilize similar visual language rooted in neo-geometric abstraction and post-minimalism to address specific issues pertinent to the contemporary conditions of perception, visual experience and knowledge. For the show at temporary contemporary both artists are going to create site-specific work. Keith is working with chalk line, beautiful, but extremely impermanent medium, appropriate for the ephemeral venue. Dorota is developing her polygonal crystalline structures into a huge organism spanning a handful of walls and juxtaposing it with smaller "contained" print series.

Keith Nelson's new, elusive, optically vibrant acrylic paintings operate as simultaneously stable and unstable shimmering fields combining highly organized grid structure with random and anomalous elements. Due to their low definition qualities and resistance to immediate comprehension these paintings ultimately act as an antidote to a quick, passing glance that dominates majority of today's visual experiences dictated by contemporary mass media.

Dorota Biczel Nelson's diagrammatic, polygonal patterns allude to crystalline, molecular or cellular structures. With their pseudo-scientific appearance they attempt to represent the mental process of perceptual, physical and conceptual trials of describing and understanding reality. As the pattern's seeming systematic development is disrupted by mutation and chance, the work hovers between radical philosophical doubt and utopian belief in complete and perfect knowledge.