Out of Order

Curated by Scott Hug

Andrew Edlin Gallery is pleased to present Out of Order, a group show organized by artist Scott Hug, founder of K48 magazine. Dealing with themes of disarrangement, mysticism and internal logic the exhibit features works by a diverse group of 33 contemporary artists.

If order comes out of chaos, what comes out of order? Sometimes the most direct way to proceed in a world that seems to be falling apart is to just go on your gut instincts - picking up the pieces here and there. The artists selected for Out of Order take a similar approach: a subversion of order, chance, sometimes brute, never posturing or overtly academic.

Brian Belott mines thrift stores for discarded junk - children's books, found photos, etc - cuts them up and collages them creating violent acts of beautiful chaos. Amy Yao's simple geometric configurations of stained wooden dowel rods with dyed human hair conjure up Native

Poem

Order of play
There is also and always
Toward great moved wrinkle disorder

Falling apart at the seams
Gut instincts, an internal logic
In the scope of our PC brains

We
The world is to us shadow
Strange shutter
Mind blanketed

Subversion of order, chance,
Strands of the hair
Backwards sweater
Shattered sunglasses

Super Collider
Asperger's syndrome
Smashed self
Un-
Aware

Precariousness is the new order
Beyond politics
Flower prick
A dismantling of the ego

Naturally pick up the leftovers,
Cut them
The double up, and reassemble

The most uncertain way to proceed
Stamps and cats
Sinking ships, scripted vases

Primal is therapy with repair
Information hungry, chopped, twisted
And sometimes dysfunctional
Surfing on the clashing waves of confusion