The gallery is pleased to present Wanted: Ed Bereal for “Still Disturbing the Peace”, featuring new sculptural installations by Ed Bereal. The exhibition continues Bereal's many year examination of socio-political themes of racial inequity and corruption in the United States, but with a new material exploration using innovative technologies.
Known for his gestural drawings and meticulously crafted oil paintings and assemblage sculptures, for this exhibition, Bereal has created vertically suspended large-scale three dimensional artworks which the artist terms topographical drawings. These are the first works of their kind by Bereal and present a significant new direction in his practice with their embrace of new technologies like 3D scanning and 3D printing to further explore more traditional methods of mark-making like sculpting and drawing.
Each artwork is a kind of rendering etched into the substrate of clear nylon exposing the contours of a figure that appears to be entangled by, or fighting to emerge from, clear acrylic bars which resemble the stripes of the American flag. When lit, the shapes and lines of the artist’s drawing ethereally appear to float in midair, revealing Bereal’s political aims: pointing to the illusory promises of the flag, and the implicit contradictions of what, and for whom, it stands.
