BRAD EBERHARD: AS DIFFERENT AS TWINS Thomas Solomon Gallery @ Cottage Home is pleased to present As
Different As Twins, a solo exhibition featuring new paintings by Brad Eberhard. The works in the show are complex proposals: hybrids created of intention, accident, art history, and anatomy. Structures collide like unmanned vessels, before becoming the substrate for rich ecosystems of color and form that inhabit their elegant, submerged skeletons. The material narratives produced draw constant parallels between the dichotomies of intimate/expansive, liquid/solid, and creation/destruction. The process orientation of drawing, the spatial concerns of sculpture,
the abrupt shifts of collage, and the odd factuality of diagrams are all folded into Eberhard’s oils on canvas. The paintings resonate with a harmonic pitch that echoes sounds, notes, and voices, vibrating with intensity and surprise. The narrative of their own layered creation is revealed in the edges of shapes that have been repainted a dozen times like an old window frame that resists opening. The essence of the show’s title, As Different As Twins,
emerges as details and relationships within and between the works
are experienced. As both architectural and organic entities, Eberhard’s
paintings share the same building blocks and a private, nonsensical
language. Yet in the absence of a master blueprint other than their
own vital energy, they ultimately develop into thrillingly individual
creatures. Brad Eberhard lives and works in Los Angeles. His recent group
shows include “LA Now,” Las Vegas Art Museum, Las Vegas, curated
by David Pagel; “I Can See For Miles,” Thomas Solomon Gallery @
Cottage Home, Los Angeles; “Towards a New Architecture,” Galeria
Perdida, Houston, “Gimme a Little Sign”, Sister, Los Angeles;
and “Possible Impossible Dimension, Six Artists on the Brink of
Abstraction,” curated by Holly Myers at Center for the Arts, Eagle
Rock, Los Angeles.
Thomas Solomon Gallery @ Cottage Home
Gallery Hours: Wednesday – Saturday, 12 – 6 pm
410 Cottage Home Street
Los Angeles, California 90013
310–428-2964
For further information direct inquiries to Thomas Solomon
13 February – 14 March, 2009
RECEPTION FOR THE ARTIST:
Friday 13 February, 6 – 9 pm
Brad Eberhard, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, 2009
oil on canvas, 24" x 24"