2009 November - HILARY CRISP GALLERY

2009-2010 | Nathan Danilowicz

25 November 2009 – 9 January 2010

Untitled (Blood-letting), 2009

CRISP presents the second solo exhibition of Los Angeles-based artist, NATHAN DANILOWICZ: Une Oasis d’Horreur dans un Désert d’Ennui

Danilowicz’s multi-media practice enquires at how we produce and consume the flesh of the world. How death intertwined with life is made tactile in works that pull references from minimalism, Viennese Actionism, hacking-culture, Sci-Fi shamanism and ritual.

In his work, the cosmetic cover of reality is bled to the surface with no resolution offered: anti-transcendental and absolute finitude. It is in these types of psychic places and embodied movements that make him a postmortem flânuer—surfing the effects of horror, ennui emaciation and incarceration.

Oasis (2009), features a matrix of blood splattered works on paper, underscored by an exemplary flower arrangement. In the video piece, Untitled (Decapitation) (2009), the artist documents his Texan friend as he harvests a head for a trophy. Chop after chop attempts to remove the head, as both human and animal is dismembered. Finally, there are the large-scale geometric drawings, Surfacing (Le Voyage) (2009), rendered with tape—they raise the specter of a palpable death, in all its abstraction and minimalism. Such works lead us away from ‘abject minimalism’ to the aesthetics of fragmentation, dismemberment, and fractured psyches.

NATHAN DANILOWICZ received an MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2007 and lives and works in Los Angeles. Solo exhibitions include CRISP, London (2008) and CRISP, Los Angeles (2008). Recent group exhibitions include The Fucked Up Drawing Party IX.9, Eighth Veil, Los Angeles (2009), IN ACCORDANCE WITH NECESSITY: A NIGHT OF CONTEMPORARY PERFORMANCE, 533 Gallery, Los Angeles (2009) and Lovable Like Orphaned Kitties and Bastard Children curated by Kristin Calebrese, The Green Gallery East, Milwaukee (2009).

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