HungryMan Gallery San Francisco, presents Turtles All The Way Down, our last show featuring paintings by Andreas Fischer and Philip Von Zweck.
Both artists work from existing images, or at least the idea of existing images. Their departures are different, but they share an interest in, or a desire for, faith in the function of images. They hope that the images they make move beyond mere duplication or representation into some kind of unique presence.
Fischer's selections are culled from ideas of everyday familiar image types that seem to structure a wide range of images. He expands the original with manipulation of material and through relationships of tonality to color intensity. Fischer's work never totally looses the descriptive properties of the initial image, but seems to want to get beyond description. This tension enacts a desire for or faith in image function that has died and been reborn as often as the medium of painting itself.
Von Zweck initially selects images based on who or what is being represented and the symbolic value of the image. For von Zweck what is being represented is important even when a painting, in process, veers so far from representation that the image is no longer readily accessible. Von Zweck is interested in how we have faith in and both draw from and impart meaning onto objects themselves. This ranges from the work of historical figures like Charles Fort and O.C. Marsh to the multiple meanings he both politically and personally applies to certain types of flowers.
Andreas Fischer lives and works in Chicago. His numerous projects include exhibitions at Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Mattress Factory Museum, Pittsburg; Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago; Gahlberg Gallery at the College of Dupage, Glen Ellyn, Illinois; Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, Illinois; Hudson Franklin Gallery, New York; Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, Andrew Rafacz Gallery, Chicago among others. He is currently an assistant professor of painting and drawing at Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois.
Philip von Zweck is a Chicago based painter and artist. He has had solo exhibitions and projects at Performa 11, The Museum of Contemporary Art, 65GRAND, Gallery 400, three-walls, and Medicine Cabinet among others, and has appeared in numerous group exhibitions across the country and internationally. From 1995-2010 he produced a weekly radio program "Something Else" on WLUW in Chicago, and from 2005-2008 he ran the gallery, VONZWECK, out of his living room, he recently founded D Gallery in his office. He was the recipient of the penultimate Richard H. Driehaus Emerging
Artist Award.
April 7 — May 19, 2012
Opening Reception 7-10pm, April