2009 | George Young - HILARY CRISP GALLERY

2009 | George Young

19 March – 25 April 2009

Private View(s):
18 March, 6-8pm LONDON
21 March, 7-9pm LOS ANGELES

CRISP presents the UK/US solo debut of London based artist, GEORGE YOUNG.

YOUNG collects, edits, reproduces and assembles images of cultural artifacts, ephemera and literary fiction. The paintings are simplified and estranged from their previous contexts and coupled with precise, formal structures that extend and respond to the painting environment.

The works are on paper, unframed and are fragile, fragmentary; they’re surface vs. object and seem to be interchangeable and readily moved – a constant revolving until the moment of exhibition. The wooden structures are dislocated supports or framing devices. Without their conventional use, they are placed around a space performing new functions or remaining idle.

For London and Los Angeles, Young will present new work. Each exhibition is a chance to rearrange themes and images to suit each specific space. New arrangements change the context of each painting, the resulting narrative -and our understanding of it- highlighting the malleability of images as meaning makers.

Tom Morton: Your arranging and re-arranging of motifs gives rise to multiple ‘edits’. What is it about the malleability of what, and how, an image means that interests you?

George Young: The meaning of an image is altered by its context and the method of its reproduction, let’s say. What I want to do is present a set of propositions, some ambiguous in themselves, some evident, which can combine in myriad ways – like words – to create new narratives, except unlike language it is not linear, but three dimensional, and when perceived from different angles, will be viewed through different frames of reference. I think that’s what I’m getting at. Re-edits occur when I show the work in a different space and where different affinities present themselves. I don’t think it’s ever final.

- January 2008.

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GEORGE YOUNG received his MFA at the Royal College of Art in 2008 and lives and works in London. Group exhibitions include Studio Voltaire and Keith Talent in London and Galerie Klatovy/Klenova in Czech Republic. February 2009, Young exhibited a solo presentation at Art Rotterdam with CRISP.

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