THIS THURSDAY!!! 7-10PM! Melissa McCaig-Welles and Sena Space are pleased to present Nite Lite, a solo exhibition by Chris Uphues. The exhibition will open with a reception on Thursday, March 6, 2014, from 7-10pm and will run through April 6, 2014. Chris Uphues presents to us a new series of mixed media paintings titled NITE LITE. Inspired by art affected by black light, NITE LITE is heavily influenced by the art of rock album covers, t-shirt art, black light posters, neon lights, U.V rave gear and finally, religion. Uphues, notorious for his fine art paintings comprised of densely detailed arrangements of shapes, faces, flowers and finite imagery. His high pop street art, adorning the walls of cities around the world, come in the form of wheat pasted hearts, radiating with color, charismatic, sanguine and buoyant. In Uphues new NITE LITE series, we are introduced to these same aesthetics, yet with an added background element of black, raising the topic of how our culture interprets darkness versus light. Black light accompanies the most negative of psychic experiences but also the most sublime, resonating with the mystical experience of negative theology, the Kabbalah, the Buddhist notions of the void, and the black light of the Sufi Mystics. Black light, as the darkness in individual lives and life alone, has not been treated hospitably in the modern world. Although modern psychology has seen darkness primarily as a negative force, it actually has an intrinsic importance to the human psyche. In this show I wish to examine the paradoxical image of black light and the meaning of darkness as a positive and possible salutary notion toward self-illumination. Uphues. Chris Uphues is an artist and designer living in Brooklyn, NY. His works have been shown in solo, group shows and museums internationally. He lives with his monkey, Del, where they spend their nights singing to the moon with homemade instruments and generally having a good time.
Posted on: Tue, 04 Mar 2014 18:34:43 +0000
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