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Adrian Paules & Landon Wiggs - Educated Dreamer
opening reception : January 5, 6-10pm
show runs : January 5- February 9, 2008
Jail Gallery is pleased to present “Educated Dreamer”, a debut two-person show by Landon Wiggs and Adrian Paules. Wiggs and Paules’ work and exchange ideas in close proximity, sharing a Los Angeles studio building, and continuing a dialogue that began in 2001, when they met at Yale University School of Art, where from they received their MFAs in 2003. They have previously shown with Jail Gallery during the summer of 2007 in “Show”, curated by Heather Cantrell.
The artist as the educated dreamer inhabits a precisely restless position wherein his product is made of material in itself dumb, and ideas themselves without evidence. Through a daily consumption of cultural stimuli of all degrees of profundity and poison, the educated dreamer is in a position between privilege and powerlessness, ordinarily an environment of moral resignation, from which to find inspiration. The educated dreamer, prone to immateriality, will pursue their goal by falling in and out of an idea, learning by living with an idea, letting go of an idea, and the evidence of this activity becomes the object or image at hand.
Adrian Paules overlays systems in an object or group of objects to illuminate the nature of the systems with which he is working. By strategically demonstrating formal concepts of symmetry, repetition, and equivalence, the work invites the viewer to begin at the point of intersection of these formal concerns and work outwards examining the structure of the object’s form and cultural associations along the way. Paules’ work can be described as synthetic parodies of natural forms and echoes of the familiar are present, but are distorted into new meanings by the collision of various understandings.
Landon Wiggs is a psychologically indulgent artist whose sculptures and collages
maximize the narrative potential of any given set of materials to generate a
fiercely idiosyncratic and dense voice. By combining the basic spiritual features
of materials, the illustrational narrative (what the object depicts), the physical
narrative (what it is), the historical narrative (what it was), and the literal
narrative (what it says), Landon produces objects defined best by their absolute
narrative, an abstract composite of the former, where from the objects formally
resolve themselves.
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