Soot Covered Reverie

SOOT COVERED REVERIE David Lowman, Aaron Nather, Michael Pajon. Project Space: PST “Osculum Infame.” Opening reception Friday June 1st, 2007, 6 – 10pm. Exhibition continues through 7th July, 2007. <a href="http://www.gardenfresh.org">www.gardenfresh.org</a> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gardenfresh">www.flickr.com/photos/gardenfresh</a> <a href="http://gardenfresh.vox.com">gardenfresh.vox.com</a> info@gardenfresh.org 312-235-2246 GARDENfresh is pleased to present David Lowman, Aaron Nather and Michael Pajon three artists whose otherworldly spirit images tread a winding path through torment and joy, despair and love, the cherished and the abject. David Lowman's recent work highlights perceived natures of god and self. “God’s First Blowjob” served as the gateway to the series, as did prevailing themes of grappling with ultimate power, personal dualities, the life force of sexuality, and humanized imagery of god. Aaron Nather’s current work shows an awkward beauty lurking beneath the surface of beings who struggle with elemental forces in their dreams and nightmares. Their faces express the bittersweet wonder of being alive and wide-awake in a savage, alien, and sadly beautiful universe. Michael deploys a range of images from The Standard American collages that merely hint at the dark side of glossy Americana to the series of Narrative Works. Rural mythic landscapes that display a humanity deprived of inhibition, lawless and chaotic. In these scenes, mobs of frightened angry people mete out violence on solitary victims alone in the woods. Project Space: PST “Osculum Infame.” “Osculum Infame” invites questions as to the darker mechanics of the creative imagination, its role in the achievement of “justified true belief,” and the necessity of duplicity for self-knowledge. It’s in these subjects that we find the answer to the age-old question: “On what do our lives depend?” - PST is an acronym for post/send/tell, the most common forms of communication in massively multiplayer online gaming environments. PST makes art of and about role-playing and video games.