Exhibitions
BRANDON REESE & JEANIE GOODEN: LISTENING WITH OUR EYES
Tinney Contemporary / 237 Rep John Lewis Way N. September 28 - November 9th (Reception: October 5 2:00pm - 8:00pm)
Jeanie Gooden, Brandon Reese
Tinney Contemporary is proud to present Listening with Our Eyes, a two-person exhibition of works by Jeanie Gooden and Brandon Reese. The exhibition will be on display from September 28 to November 9, 2024. The opening reception will be held on Saturday, October 5 from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. in conjunction with the First Saturday Art Crawl.“We listen in order to interpret our world and experience meaning. Our world is a complex matrix of vibrating energy, matter and air just as we are made of vibrations. Vibration connects us with all beings and connects us to all things interdependently.”
-Pauline Oliveros
The works in this exhibition share a common focus on surface and texture. Reese’s and Gooden’s artistic practices both emphasize material investigation, drawing inspiration from architecture and the natural environment. Jeanie Gooden’s large, abstract paintings juxtapose oil paint with found materials—fabric, salvaged copper and steel—on their heavily varnished surfaces. Multi-hued swathes flow into gestural markings and blocks of vivid color; metal scraps and found fabric are hand-stitched or nailed to the surface. Brandon Reese’s works in ceramic are at once rugged and delicate. His carefully constructed large-scale works—freestanding, circular structures reaching 8 or 10 feet tall—push the boundaries of what is structurally possible within the medium. The larger pieces are accompanied by smaller works resembling simplistic houses and other domestic forms.
The work engages both natural and organic surfaces, but seems to hone in on the ambiguous space between the two—particularly as the effects of time and the elements create similar patinas by erosion, oxidation, even fossilization. The title of the exhibition emphasizes this attunement to one’s surroundings; the entanglement of the senses: sound and light, particle and wave; matter itself.
