Press Release:
· Work Examples:
“the map, the target, the territory”
Mixed Media on Paper
11w X 14h
2018
“disappears the barely world”
it’s that which disappears
the gossamer threads
we can barely see it
that binds the world
always almost vanished
we must fight to find
and fight to keep it
to look with all our might
and give our hearts to what we see
always more than what we see
is the power and purpose of art
Exhibition Title:
to hell with __________
everything (is)
politics
speculation more accurate than reality
· Introduction:
David Jacobsen Loncle’s installation at Wagner College Gallery features visual art (abstract paintings and works on paper) and written word (poems, aphorisms and conceptual provocations) to evoke experiences and make open questions of our relationship to the way we see and how we arrive at understanding in the world. He believes it is among the roles of the artist to explore and expand the ways in which we make sense of the world and thereby open the potential for the visions that reshape how we live. “In our thoughts and actions, what do we keep and what do we transform? The frame is a funnel and its boundary our shape. Where to draw the line marks the question of our self.”
· Bio:
David Jacobsen Loncle is a Visual Artist and Writer based in New York City. He has taught classes in Studio Art and Civics at the College of Staten Island CUNY for 10 years. Recently he was selected to an exhibition featuring prominent artists of Staten Island held at the Newhouse Gallery for Contemporary Art and sponsored by the office of the Mayor. For a publication through the Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof Foundation, he selected and edited a compilation of writing by the artist Pat Passlof entitled: “To Whom the Shoe Fits : Letters to Young Painters”. He is currently an artist-in-residence with ChaShaMa through their Space to Create Program.
· Description:
The (R)ole of art is fundamental to the enduring questions of art. What is art’s appropriate focus? How do we justify the efforts spent on its production and appraisal? Describing its definition and purpose is a task perennial and enduring. In the current age, questions regarding art, once largely the domain of intellectual query or filtered by the interest of power, are drifting into the imminent concerns of how to live. Across an increasing and remarkable range of labors, automation replaces human work and purpose. Attention has become the primary market commodity and apprehension, contemplation and navigation of complex systems has become the preeminent skill in a volatile and attenuating labor force. We are pressed by novel demands to learn and develop our creative reach to cope with the scale of change and the depth of uncertainty it entails.
“Labor for the seeker of truth, is the endurance of uncertainty,” notes the artist David Jacobsen Loncle. It is the experience of uncertainty, ambiguity and ambivalence, its emotional and bodily content, and its psychological ramifications that Jacobsen Loncle explores through the aesthetic contemplation of his paintings and the provocative and poetic concept-scapes of his writing. “We use our senses to make sense of a world, split between our memory and vision.” The exhibition at the gallery at Wagner College gives viewers a chance to practice their contemplation, of the aesthetic, intellectual and emotional realms and explore the spaces between and within them. “I hope to make things that others find meaningful and capture untrumpeted elements of experience to dignify the complexity of existence. This is a period of advancing balkanization, we are finding solutions shallow and fugitive. Living in a socially diverse society requires a capacity to adopt diverse perspectives whose introduction is always wrapped in confusion, fear and even revulsion. We need space to practice being in uncertainty, to have patience in it, until we find a new way to be. We are it.”
· Dates:
Opening – October 6, 2019, 12 - 5pm
Exhibit Duration: October 6 – October 26, 2019
Artist Gallery Talk: October 22 , 2019, 3pm
· Media & Contact Info
- https://www.davidloncle.com/
- Instagram:
@david_jacobsen_loncle
@david.jacobsen.loncle
- https://wagner.edu/newsroom/event/gallery-reception-david-jacobsen-loncle/
- Gallery Talk
https://wagner.edu/newsroom/event/gallery-talk-david-jacobsen-loncle/
