ISAAC LIN: NEW DAWN FADES CHRISTOPHER CULVER: MAKING THE MODERN A RUIN AND CAVE MONSTER LAND MASS, MAY 26 - JUN 16, 2006

Queen’s Nails Annex is pleased to present dual solo exhibitions by artists Isaac Lin and Christopher Culver.

Isaac Lin has constructed an installation utilizing painting, sculpture and photo-based drawings entitled "New Dawn Fades". This exhibition marks Lin’s first solo exhibition and includes an essay by curator and writer Larry Rinder.

Lin’s work involves the craft of the hand and the perception of the mind. He is interested in the visual white noise created through layers and interlaced lines, a rebus of clashing patterns Lin attempts to evoke a sense of over saturation, complexity and the harmony therein. Like building a structure brick by brick, individual pieces add up to form a whole of the installation; the pieces overlap the walls and sprawl out onto the floor. The installation continues to drip down the windows and take shape as an awning outside the gallery’s door. The end result is a visual psychological barrier that reveals and conceals simultaneously. His usage of layered repetitive marks suggests a mood of doubtfulness. Lin seeks to find a balance between discord and silence by exploring their differences and similarities in hopes to find boundary where one becomes the other.

The best of Isaac Lin’s abstract paintings possess a contrapuntal tautness, like a volcanic reservoir of feeling organized with utmost focus and precision. Blankets of multi-colored calligraphic marks hover one above the other, creating something that is like nothing so much as a complex harmony. As music, they remind me of the great Persian classical singer Shadjarian, whose voice will nail you to your seat while transporting you to heaven.
– Larry Rinder, 2006

"New Dawn Fades" is Isaac Tin Wei Lin’s first solo exhibition. Lin’s work has been previously shown at The Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco CA, New Image Art, West Hollywood, 3 Rivers Arts Festival Pittsburgh, Renowned Gallery, Portland and Elizabeth Oliveria Gallery, Los Angeles. Lin received his BFA from The Rhode Island School of Design and his MFA from the California College of the Arts.

Christopher Culver is an emerging artist from Miami. His exhibition entitled "Making the Modern a Ruin and Cave Monster Land Mass" features a series of psychedelic environment with free flowing fountains, creeks, and ponds that are alive and littered with overgrown gardens all tucked away deep into a mountainside or into ice caves. It is only through further investigation that we realize the foliage or crystals cover the remains of structure from a fallen time which could very well represent our own.

"Making the Modern a Ruin and Cave Monster Land Mass" is Christopher Culver’s first solo exhibition. Christopher currently attends San Francisco Art Institute.