Exhibition : Candace Chaite and Shel Neymark
MAY 13th-28TH, 2023 opening Reception May 13 1-5PM
May 14th Artist talk - Shel Neymark & Steve Cox 2PM
May 27th Performance 3PM The Placebo Effect
Engaging the Elemental
An exhibition of paintings, sculpture, and interactive
Opening Reception: May 13th 1-5pm
May 14th 2pm: Artist Talk with Shel Neymark and Steve Cox
May 27th 3PM: Performance by the Placebo Effect (Shel Neymark, Elizabeth Riedel, and Ra Paulette).
Curated by Brian Barreto, Candace Chaite, and Shel Neymark
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It is important to recognize a space within yourself that is open, however small.
For what we consider ‘experiences’ are reflected upon that unknowing space: be they illuminated, judged, or surrendered until the next impression.
I wonder when looking into Candace Chaite’s paintings if we are seeing that inchoate matter in projection, the dust before it settles, adrift and all potential, refracting light.
Here is a thread that also runs through the work of Shel Neymark—our shifting and sinuous awareness. Neymark’s interactive sculpture engages the viewer as participant: whether they’re watching their thoughts slowly drip forth, or to sing a duet creating shapes of colored light.
It’s within these interiors that understanding is shepherded, be it Chaite’s vibrant punctilious meditations on the square, or Neymark's biofeedback, it’s important to bring a space within you that is open, however small.
—Brian Barreto
Candace Chaite / candacechaite.com
The primary focus in my paintings is the very placement of the dots. Each of these elemental marks, these dots, point directly at the present moment, and collectively they imagine an array of basic space. These are not paintings of any thing, they are an effort at placing the mind in its own motility. A visual catalyst to watch the mind move.
Beneath each of our narratives lies the deep simplicity of energy in motion, an inherent and vast vitality of silence.
Shel Neymark / shelneymark.com
The human body—especially the brain—is an enigma. The more we learn the more mysterious it seems. My brain pieces explore questions like; Are we our brains? Who is the “I” that directs our thoughts? Do brainwaves have a function? How does contemporary thought about the brain fit into our cultural milieu?
Pondering its complexity is a spiritual pursuit. I hope viewers of my work will consider what it is to be human and the nature of creation.
