with four white walls, and we don’t host traditional art exhibitions that open on a certain date and
close a month later. Our specialty is one night events. The work goes up, guests come, they see
the work, they meet the artist, they eat great food, and spend a few hours chatting and mingling with other people who like art.
The focus isn’t on the sale, but inevitably the art gets sold anyway. That’s the beauty of it.
CG:
The goal of Baang and Burne is to create an environment where both collectors and curators could come and see the work
and meet the artist. We want it to be intimate. We want it to be relaxed and casual, and focus on building relationships for the
long term. We rejected the idea of having a permanent physical location because we wanted to create a business model based on
flexibility and adoptability. Without the pressures of paying for a gallery space we can constantly reinvent and improve upon
what we are doing.
EveryDAY presents recent artwork from Charlie Grosso and Todd Squires
Thursday October 21, 2010. 6-8 PM.
Viewing by appointment Oct 22-26, 2010.
The work in Everyday highlights how what is normally considered common place can become the unexpected or even extraordinary. In both of these artists' work, the familiar is transformed and infused with both drama and mystery; the final result is imagery that is both haunting and beautiful. In Squires' mixed-media paintings, single, crushed objects are blended into monochromatic panels of intricately sprayed or blown paint which makes them appear to be fossils of the urban landscape. These ordinary, discarded objects such as burned-out light bulbs are transformed into dramatic and remarkably beautiful compositions. Grosso's on-going photographic series "Wok the Dog" takes something as simple as food markets from locations around the world and uses them to address and raise questions about the most fundamental parts of the global food chain. Through her examination of the common subject of food, she generates a greater cultural dialogue about the effects of industrialization and consumerism.
Empty Chair and Meat, Leon, Nicaragua, 2009Wok The Dog / Photography
Archival Pigment Print
17 inchs x 22 inches
Cages are Nice, Shangri La, China, 2007Wok The Dog / Photography
Archival Pigment Print
17 inchs x 22 inches
Cabbage Pile, Masaya, Nicaragua, 2009Wok The Dog / Photography
Archival Pigment Print
17 inchs x 22 inches
Meat Isle, Shangri La, China 2007Wok The Dog / Photography
Archival Pigment Print
17 inchs x 22 inches
Light, Shangri La, China 2007Wok The Dog / Photography
Archival Pigment Print
17 inchs x 22 inches
Guy, Basket, Market and Piggy, Masaya, Nicaragua 2009Wok The Dog / Photography
Archival Pigment Print
17 inchs x 22 inches
WhiskeyMixed Media
2007
27" 32"
Light BulbMixed Media
2005
13"x 17"
Coffee PotMixed Media
2006
26 1/4" x 22"
BooklightMixed Media
2006
25" x 32 1/2"
AltoidMixed Media
2009
25" x 32 1/2"
