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PRESS RELEASE
Brian Fridge
New Work
June 20 through July 20, 2003
Dunn and Brown Contemporary is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by Brian Fridge. The opening of the exhibition will take place on Friday, June 20 from 6 p.m. until 8 p.m. The artist will be present for the opening, and the exhibition will continue through Saturday, July 20.
Brian Fridge’s video installation consists of a darkened gallery with a large projection as well as video programs on monitors. These new works, all 2003, include projects from Fridge’s recent residency at ArtPace in San Antonio as well as work created specifically for this exhibition. These mysteriously simple, silent, unedited videos introduce new imagery into Fridge’s continually expanding universe of space and time. As with his video work beginning in 1997, in which images appeared as everything from a view of infinite space to the deep sea and had as their source a home appliance, the new work also evokes a range of scale in space and time while being grounded in a size that is domestic.
Sequence 2.1 and Sequence 2.3 appear together as complimentary and contrasting programs. The first is a rapidly moving four-second burst that is unidentifiable and seems to at first explode and then implode. Immediately following is an event with almost imperceptible movement; radiating bands of dark and light streaming from a central black disk slowly reveal detail. The image could have numerous associations, but the elusive specificity of the form always bears the most gravity.
The exhibition highlights Fridge’s tendency towards contrasts and contradictions, such as light and matter or the extremes of distance and duration as a nanosecond is to a billion years. His continuing exploration of forms that are specific and real, yet somewhat abstract in form allows for a flexibility in presentation that is unique to video work and lends a sculptural presence in the installation.
Fridge currently lives and works in Fort Worth, Texas. He received his B.F.A. from the University of North Texas in 1994. He recently completed the International Artist in Residence Program at ArtPace, a Foundation for Contemporary Art in San Antonio, Texas. Fridge has exhibited in numerous exhibitions across the United States including the prestigious Biennial Exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. His work is part of the Whitney’s permanent collection as well as the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and the Seattle Art Museum.
Please contact Elizabeth Phy at the gallery for additional information or to request visuals.
Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 11 a.m. until 5 p.m. and by appointment.