Someone in Texas Loves is an exhibition held in a storage unit that Heath West and myself rented. The exhibition was located in Houston, Texas. Someone In Texas Loves You opened for viewing from February 27 through March 20, 2015.
SOMEONE IN TEXAS LOVES YOU
~works by Heath West and Michael Bhichitkul
Focused on the spatial effects of material experience, the work of Heath West activates the surface properties of the image by deconstructing traditional painting methods. Trained as an architect, West rebuilds the picture plane with pieces of dyed fabric by sewing them together, emphasizing how the expressive space of the image is always smooth (with fluids: cyanotype, dyes, stains) and striated (cut into strips of equal width, sewn together). This contrasting philosophical approach finds its balance within the composed material result of West's non-paintings (no brushes, no paints) and sculptures.
Michael Bhichitkul is interested in outcome situation and wordplay; thus being the result of works manipulated and fabricated into installations, painting, sculpture, video and photography.
Through their differing formal methods, both artists are aligned in their processes of a material-based literalism; a literalism that activates contrasting forces of language and meaning within contemporary culture. Employing these expressive forces in their work requires a subversive form of love, a love of exposing details and their contents. Both artits live and work in Houston, Texas.
- Heath West
SOMEONE IN TEXAS LOVES YOU
~works by Heath West and Michael Bhichitkul
Focused on the spatial effects of material experience, the work of Heath West activates the surface properties of the image by deconstructing traditional painting methods. Trained as an architect, West rebuilds the picture plane with pieces of dyed fabric by sewing them together, emphasizing how the expressive space of the image is always smooth (with fluids: cyanotype, dyes, stains) and striated (cut into strips of equal width, sewn together). This contrasting philosophical approach finds its balance within the composed material result of West's non-paintings (no brushes, no paints) and sculptures.
Michael Bhichitkul is interested in outcome situation and wordplay; thus being the result of works manipulated and fabricated into installations, painting, sculpture, video and photography.
Through their differing formal methods, both artists are aligned in their processes of a material-based literalism; a literalism that activates contrasting forces of language and meaning within contemporary culture. Employing these expressive forces in their work requires a subversive form of love, a love of exposing details and their contents. Both artits live and work in Houston, Texas.
- Heath West
photo: Heath West
photo: Heath West
Comin' In Hot (TABASCO 6 Pack), 2015
Helium Over Oxygen, 2013/2015
Bermuda Triangle (3D.RB), 2015
photo: Pablo Cardoza
photo: Pablo Cardoza
photo: Pablo Cardoza