David King: Sanguine

Opening reception March 9th from 6-8 PM.

Sanguine is an exhibition of attempts to systematize nature. The artist hopes to convey the shortcomings of these attempts by celebrating the complication, confusion, absurdity, futility,  and beauty that result. 

Generated by artists and scientists, indexes of color aim to organize and display the full range of natural colors. These indexes, numerous as they may be, have never satisfied our want for an unequivocally complete diagram of the visible light spectrum. 

Anamorphic stage sets had a brief heyday in Europe during the Baroque Era. An attempt to create an illusion of space led to the development of constructed scenes designed to bias a single privileged point of view for one seat in the theater. That seat was in the royal box where the sovereign enjoyed an isolated visually "correct" perspective. 

In all political eras, solipsistic delusions bypass agents of intellectual authority and slip directly into public discourse and government policy. 

Certainty evaporates as one experiences a broader range of perspectives. Understanding evolves as your position relative to any given situation shifts. Colored objects' appearance is interdependent on other colored objects in their proximity and the color of their environment. Perhaps this is a valuable lesson beyond the realm of color theory.

Artist Bio:

David King makes objects, installations, and drawings that address the transiency of perception. After earning an MFA from Tyler School of Art, King presented as an Emerging Artist at the 42nd Annual Glass Art Society Conference in Toledo, Ohio. He was awarded a fellowship at the Creative Glass Center of America at WheatonArts and has been an artist in residence at the Pilchuck Glass School, Sunderland University and STARworks glass lab. King has taught at the Ohio State University, University of the Arts, Tyler School of Art, Salem Community College, Pilchuck Glass School, UrbanGlass and North Lands Creative Glass. His work has been shown internationally and was recently part of the Corning Museum of Glass exhibition, New Glass Now. King is also a founding member of the artist collective, Flock the Optic, who combine glassblowing with interactive installation, sound manipulation and relational interventions. King is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Art at Centre College in Danville, KY.

David King's Sanguine is presented through UrbanGlass’ Window Gallery / Community Activation Project, an open call for emerging artists to present exhibitions, performances and other community-engagement programs in our ground-level Rockwell Street windows. This exhibition is a part of the 2019-20 series curated by Yael Ebon of Tiger Strikes Asteroid Gallery. 

Public programs at UrbanGlass are generously supported by the Agnes Varis Trust, the Metropolitan Contemporary Glass Group, the Milton & Sally Avery Arts Foundation, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the New York State Council on the Arts, the Robert Lehman Foundation, Corning Incorporated Foundation, the William Talbott Hillman Foundation, Wolf Kahn & Emily Mason Foundation, and many individual donors. 

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