Art Palace is an exhibition space dedicated to the presentation of new visual art from both emerging and established artists. Periodically we collaborate with guest curators and writers to investigate new ideas in contemporary art. It is part of our mission to provide a professional yet casual environment to appreciate and engage in art of our time.
2109 Cesar Chavez Street
Austin, Texas 78702
512.496.0687
ERIC GIBBONS & NATHAN GREEN
War, the diamond trade, killer bees, traffic jams, global warming, killer asteroids, pandemics, cancer, violent crime, religious fanaticism, poverty, tsunamis, governmental corruption, genital herpes, bird flu, identity theft, torture. Nathan Green’s work strives for an absurdity equal to that which is reflected in the above list, but in the opposite direction. His is a search for the ecstatic where vivid visions of unrealistic and impossible situations present a world overflowing with delight and glee, almost to a burden. Where Green’s paintings use a lexicon that includes children’s drawings, nature, drug culture and utopian architecture, Eric Gibbon’s has chosen to focus on one figure whose oeuvre is defined by earnestness and seeming effortless ponderings on love, betrayal, desire, aging and God: Paul Simon. Gibbon’s portraits of Simon function as a means to process the poetry and beauty of the songwriter’s music. Green’s and Gibbon’s worlds sometimes converge thematically, and at other times stylistically, but both worlds always profess a steady devotion to the idea of miracle and wonder. The title of this two-person exhibition, “Lasers in the Jungleâ€, at Art Palace is taken from Simon’s lyrics to the song Boy in a Bubble.