The Fuller Projects gallery at Indiana University proudly presents a two-person show, "Fact/Simile," by Los Angeles-based artists, Alison Byrnes and Robert Moya.
As painters, both Alison Byrnes and Robert Moya inevitably deal with the element of representation. Alison makes funny paintings about history by translating historical text into visual articulations. Specifically, she is interested in portraying the problem of historiography itself. Robert builds up layers of paint, which he then cuts into and collages. His final product employs the use of paint as paint itself, in non-representational compositions.
In Fact/Simile, Alison and Robert challenge the idea of a painting as being a final note, whether representational, or non-objective. In coming together for the show, both artists decided to start a small body of work by creating a seed painting, and agreed to base all additional works on that painting, so that Alison's works become representations of a representation, and Robert's become representations of a non-representation. In Fact/Simile, two artists with seemingly disparate ways of using paint create a dialogue that creatively deals with an issue upon which all painters take a stance: representation.
An opening reception will be held from 8:00-10:00pm at The Fuller Projects
525 E 9th Street.
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