Chris Kahler: Dialumens by Bruno David Gallery

CHRIS KAHLER DIALUMENS

bruno david gallery

CHRIS KAHLER Dialumens

January 24 - March 1, 2014 Bruno David Gallery 3721 Washington Boulevard Saint Louis, 63108 Missouri, U.S.A. info@brunodavidgallery.com www.brunodavidgallery.com Director: Bruno L. David This catalogue was published in conjunction with the exhibition Chris Kahler: Dialumens Editor: Bruno L. David Catalogue Designer: Yuwei Qiu Designer Assistant: Claudia R. David Printed in USA All works courtesy of Bruno David Gallery and Chris Kahler Photographs by Bruno David Gallery Cover image:

Dialumens 7A, 2013 (detail) Acrylic and ink on panel 40 x 30 inches (101.6 x 76.2 cm)

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CONTENTS

CHRIS KAHLER BY PAUL KRAINAK DISEQUENCING BY JAD SMITH Afterword BY BRUNO L. DAVID CHECKLIST AND IMAGES OF THE EXHIBITION BIOGRAPHY

CHRIS KAHLER BY PAUL KRAINAK 2

Chris Kahler‘s work raises pertinent questions about painting and its contemporary iterations. It has implications for all discreet objects whose forms have been determined by modernist observances of introspection and formal innovation. It dismisses the oft-anticipated expiration dates of abstract art and confirms that the conceits of modernist painting are not only alive but critical to the current conceptualization of art as it is variously practiced. In recent decades, which yielded a bifurcation of art language and demographics and reduced complete signs to memes and glyphs, as well as endorsing popular and populist art practices, traditional studio conventions and the notion of artist as principle investigator still looms. So also do formal investigations that are more than a matter of taste, but rather a separate, more grounded, way of knowing the world. This is a real space discipline still responsive to art history, dependent on the body as a host of visual literacy, and abstraction as speech reacting to and annotating the present. Kahler is dedicated to the operations of visual grammar and his work resonates with the painterliness of American expressionism and stream of conscious writing. He allows the process of application and erasure to uncover endless unexpected optic pleasures. He lays a few ground rules and sets a pace for improvisation - plotting, and reworking the surface until it coalesces within the confines of a single image and other paintings in the series. His newer work includes a pallid breathing space that accentuates color intensity and provides more autonomy for his poured forms, concretizing the image and producing a kind of living map metaphor. A typical work employs color with seeming abandon. His “studio freestyle” accentuates oxidizing cadmiums and alkaline viridians and immerses them in stark white ether. The palette can be alternately, sweet, bilious, glistening and excessive, strewn with spilled and pulverized pigment and evened with gels and mediums. A lively theater of draped or darting linear structures merge nervously with the vibrant organicism found in his controlled paint flow. Faint lines are raked gingerly over the background, drifting from shape to shape, spatializing the painting and keeping the composition from outright dissolving. Forceful impressions of implied space and movement caused by contentious color override details where the eye is momentarily suspended in textured surfaces and reflected light. Despite the turbulence Kahler’s paintings lay coolly on prepared panel – silken, flat and familiar as a weather chart but as particularized as cellular microscopy.

These abstractions are not without other translatable logic. Historical vacuums no longer exist for unmediated experiences, which were theorized in late Modernism and Kahler is uninterested in only a contemplative viewing space. There is a critical reference to nature spoiled that keeps one foot of the image firmly in the real world. Suggestions of unstable technology in his fragmented grids struggle to contain the toxicity of Kahlerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s genetically altered landscape metaphor. Even so the painter displays a blissful inhibition, or perhaps optimism, as he astheticizes the slow creep of our microbial present, leading to some alternately pleasurable and uncanny readings on naturalness and subjectivity in painting.

Paul Krainak is an artist, critic, and Chair of the Art Department at Bradley University. He has exhibited widely in the US including the Southeast Center for Contemporary Art in Winston-Salem, NC, The Ukrainian Museum of Modern Art and The Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago, the Bemis Center for the Arts in Omaha, Artist Image Resource Center in Pittsburgh, Semaphore Gallery in New York City and NEXUS Gallery in Philadelphia.. His writing has been published by Indiana University Press, Afterimage, New Art Examiner, Dialogue, Sculpture Magazine and Artpapers. Paul lives and works in Peoria, Illinois. This essay is one in a series of the galleryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s exhibitions written by fellow gallery artists and friends.

DIALUMENS BY JAD SMITH 6

Chris Kahler’s impressive new exhibition “Dialumens” extends recent motifs in his work into novel territory. The title of the show literally means “through or across emitted light” and rightly points toward a greater emphasis on the use of color. Even from a distance, these paintings glow with a “cold light” suggestive of bioluminescent organisms, white phosphorus, or aluminized surfaces. These emanations--sometimes concentrated and effulgent, sometimes shimmering and diffuse--traverse the negative and positive space of Kahler’s paintings, transforming these two fields into the warp and woof of a single fabric. These compositions work by compression rather than stark contrast, inviting the viewer into their intricacies slowly and with deliberation. Contrasts and incongruities of the sort Kahler offered in “Disequencing” still obtain here but in a more subtle and varied way. Zips, for instance, continue to dart along unpredictable paths, but they are less bright, their paths less distinct from the murky radiance of the churning shapes through which they pass. Some of these zips even fade away at the edge of the visual frame, appearing to leave it, circle back, and merge with the abstract geometric lines in the background. The paintings with zips, in particular, suggest a depth and distorted gravity that Kahler underscores through technique. He has clearly used gravity to create flows and curdles of paint but has also put some of those effects under erasure through scraping, sanding, and tonal contrast. Other paintings present the viewer with spreading nebulous and biological shapes that fuse with or even transition seamlessly into circuit- or map-like grids. These points of merger and hybridization could be digital stains, archeological NIR images, or bio-integrated technologies dissolving inside a human body, among other things. And of course, the instability of these references is the point. Kahler’s paintings take us to those places where our conceptual filters-our ways of knowing the world--are breaking down or transforming. It is as though Kahler shows us the back of the phenomenal world, the very tangles of matter and motion that hold our realities together behind the scenes. His paintings teem with an unexpected connectivity that defies physical laws and cuts against the grain of our “normal” perception of distance and time. Traces of our world are faintly visible in the hazy negative space of these paintings, perhaps bleeding through into microbiotic environments or the quantum world, but the genius of Kahler’s compositions is that they let us see ourselves from these points of view, from perspectives not available to ordinary perception. Jad Smith is Associate Professor of British Literature and Cultural Studies. His interests include eighteenth-century British literature and science fiction. He teaches graduate seminars titled Enlightenment Sexualities, Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama in Performance, and SF Avant-Gardes: New Wave and Cyberpunk, as well as a wide range of undergraduate courses. His recent book: John Brunner, Modern Masters of Science Fiction Series (University of Illinois Press, January 2013)

AFTERWORD BY BRUNO L. DAVID 8

I am pleased to present a new exhibition titled “Dialumens” by Chris Kahler. This show marks Kahler’s sixth solo exhibition with the gallery. These new works focus on the interaction between negative space, light, and intersecting planes. The paintings extend the exploration of “boundaries between physical and psychological time, between phenomena and the variable conceptual filters for understanding them” begun in the “Disequencing” exhibition through novel uses of color, form, and texture. As Jad Smith has pointed out, “Kahler’s new work takes us there, somewhere beyond the organic and the synthetic, the phenomenal and the scientific, the empirical and the imaginative. These paintings call attention to the dreams that stuff is made of but, in the end, gesture toward the surprising and sometimes inexplicable intricacies of a noumenal world just beyond.” Chris Kahler is a Professor of Painting and Drawing at Eastern Illinois University. He received his B.F.A. at Ohio Wesleyan University and M.F.A. from Northwestern University, Chicago, IL. Kahler has been the subject of numerous one-person exhibitions at venues including the Richard Ross Art Museum, Delaware, OH (2014); Anita Wooten Gallery, Valencia College, Orlando, FL (2011); John P. Weatherhead Gallery, University of Saint Francis, Fort Wayne, IN (2009); Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago, IL (2002). Support for the creation of significant new works of art has been the core to the mission and program of the Bruno David Gallery since its founding in 2005. I would like to express my sincere thanks to Paul Krainak and Jad Smith for their thoughtful essays. I am deeply grateful to Yuwei Qiu, who gave much time, talent, and expertise to the production of this catalogue. Invaluable gallery staff support for the exhibition was provided by Cleo Azariadis, Yoko Kiyoi, Yuwei Qiu, Jackie Jevorutsky, Abigail Spratt and Alex Lasko.

CHECKLIST & IMAGES OF THE EXHIBITION

Dialumens 14A, 2013 Acrylic on panel 18 x 24 inches (45.7 x 61 cm)

Dialumens 12A, 2013 Acrylic on panel 20 x 16 inches (50.8 x 40.6 cm)

Dialumens 15A, 2013 Acrylic on panel 20 x 16 inches (50.8 x 40.6 cm)

Dialumens 8A, 2013 Acrylic on panel 24 x 18 inches (61 x 45.7 cm)

Dialumens 10A, 2013 Acrylic on panel 48 x 36 inches (121.9 x 91.4 cm)

Dialumens 11A, 2013 Acrylic on panel 48 x 36 inches (121.9 x 91.4 cm)

Dialumens 7A, 2013 Acrylic on panel 40 x 30 inches (101.6 x 76.2 cm)

Dialumens 18A, 2013 Acrylic on panel 36x 36 inches (91.4 x 91.4 cm)

Dialumens 3A, 2013 Acrylic on panel 60 x 48 inches (152.4 x 121.9 cm)

Dialumens 17A, 2013 Acrylic on panel 36 x 36 inches (91.4 x 91.4 cm)

Dialumens 2A, 2013 Acrylic on panel 40 x 30 inches (101.6 x 76.2 cm)

Dialumens 9A, 2013 Acrylic on panel 30 x 30 inches (76.2 x 76.2 cm)

Dialumens 5A, 2013 Acrylic on panel 30 x 24 inches (76.2 x 61 cm)

Dialumens 6A, 2013 Acrylic on panel 30 x 24 inches (76.2 x 61 cm)

Dialumens 4A, 2013 Acrylic on panel 30 x 24 inches (76.2 x 61 cm)

Dialumens 13A, 2013 Acrylic on panel 30 x 24 inches (76.2 x 61 cm)

Dialumens 1A, 2013 Acrylic on panel 16 x 16 inches (40.6 x 40.6 cm)

Dialumens 16A, 2013 Acrylic on panel 40 x 30 inches (101.6 x 76.2 cm)

Dialumens 16A (detail), 2013 Acrylic on panel 40 x 30 inches (101.6 x 76.2 cm)

CHRIS KAHLER: Dialumens, Bruno David Gallery, 2014 (Installation view)

CHRIS KAHLER EDUCATION M.F.A. M.A. B.F.A.

1995, Painting/Printmaking concentration, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 1992, Painting/Drawing concentration, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, Illinois 1991, Painting concentration, Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio 1990, Study Abroad, Parsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s School of Art and Design and The American University, Paris, France

SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2007 2006 2004 2002 1997

Bruno David Gallery, Chris Kahler: Dialumens, St. Louis, Missouri (catalogue) Richard M. Ross Art Museum, Chris Kahler, Delaware, OH Bruno David Gallery, Chris Kahler: Disequencing, St. Louis, Missouri (catalogue) Bruno David Gallery, Chris Kahler: Recent Paintings, St. Louis, Missouri (catalogue) Anita S. Wooten Gallery, Chris Kahler: Duality, Valencia College, Orlando, FL David Richard Contemporary, Bio-Dynamic, Santa Fe, NM. (catalogue) Bruno David Gallery, Chris Kahler: Hybrid Dynamic, St. Louis, Missouri (catalogue) The John P. Weatherhead Gallery, Chris Kahler: Interconnectivity, University of Saint Francis, Fort Wayne, Indiana Bruno David Gallery, Chris Kahler: VIRAL, St. Louis, Missouri (catalogue) Bruno David Gallery, Impulsive Systems: The Works of Chris Kahler, Saint Louis, Missouri (catalogue) Elliot Smith Contemporary Art, Chris Kahler: Recent Works, Saint Louis, Missouri The International Museum of Surgical Science, Chris Kahler: ANATOMICA, Chicago, Illinois John Almquist Gallery, Dismantling Beauty: Christopher Kahler, Winnetka, Illinois

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004

BLUE-WHITE-RED, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO W.O.P. I, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO OVERPAPER, with Carmon Colangelo, William Conger, Alex Couwenberg, Jill Downen, Yvette Drury Dubinsky, Beverly Fishman, Joan Hall, Ann Hamilton, Kelley Johnson, Chris Kahler, Matthew Penkala, Judy Pfaff, Paul Henry Ramirez, and Buzz Spector. Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO (catalogue) Gallery Artists, Bruno David Gallery (Project Room), St. Louis, MO NEXT, Art Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, (Bruno David Gallery) Overview_09, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri Synchronous Events, Works of Chris Kahler and Charles Schwall, Purdue University, Patti and Rusty Rueff Galleries, Lafayette, Indiana New Paintings, IL+MO, Edwardsville Arts Center, Curated by Daniel Raedeke, Edwardsville, Illinois Controlled Chaos, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri Overview_08, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri ArtsDesire, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri. Biennial 24, South Bend Museum of Art, Curated by Meg Sheehy and Myra Casis, South Bend, Indiania Paper Now, I Space, Chicago, Illinois Overview_07, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri Drawing & Watercolor, Tarble Arts Center, Charleston, Illinois Overview_06, Bruno David Gallery, Saint Louis, Missouri Inaugural Exhibition, Bruno David Gallery, Saint Louis, Missouri Le Papier, Gescheidle Gallery, Chicago, Illinois The (In)Visible Body. Curated by Heather Weber, NIU Gallery, Chicago, Illinois Noire, Curated by Bruno L. David, Elliot Smith Contemporary Art, Saint Louis, Missouri Abstract Painting: Six Points of View, Curated by Belinda Lee, RAC Gallery, Saint Louis, Missouri 1984-2004 Twentieth Anniversary Celebration, Curated by Bruno L. David, Elliot Smith Contemporary Art, Saint Louis, Missouri Art St. Louis XX, Curated by Chakaia Booker, Art St. Louis Gallery, Saint Louis, Missouri Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Art..., Elliot Smith Contemporary Art, Saint Louis, Missouri Size Matters, Curated by Bruno L. David, Elliot Smith Contemporary Art, Saint Louis, Missouri Midwestern Exhibition, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, Illinois

2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1997 1996

Art St. Louis Selections, Schmidt Art Center, Belleville, Missouri 2004, Curated by Mel Watkin, Art St. Louis Gallery, Saint Louis, Missouri Greater Midwest, International Exhibition XIX, Art Center Gallery, Central Missouri State University, Warrensburg, Missouri Works on Paper, I-Space Gallery, Chicago, Illinois Systematic, Cade Center for the Fine Arts Gallery, Anne Arundel Community College, Arnold, Maryland Art St. Louis XIX, Art St. Louis Gallery, Saint Louis, Missouri Ready for War, University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois Southern Illinois Artists Exhibition, Mitchell Museum, Mount Vernon, Illinois Polka-dots and Squiggly Things, Gescheidle Gallery, Chicago, Illinois Inspired in Illinois, Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences, Peoria, Illinois Artists-Alumni: Masters of Fine Arts from Northwesternâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Department of Art Theory and Practice, Block Museum, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois Nineteenth Biennial Southern Illinois Artists Exhibition, Mitchell Museum, Mount Vernon, Illinois The 13th Biennial Drawing/Watercolor: Illinois Exhibition, Tarble Art Museum, Charleston, Illinois The 2000 Rockford-Midwestern Exhibition, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, Illinois Americas 2000, Northwest Art Center, Minot State University, Minot, North Dakota Seventh Biennial Regional Arts Exhibition, University Museum, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois John Almquist Gallery, Dismantling Beauty: Christopher Kahler and Armin Mersmann. North Shore Country Day School, Winnetka, Illinois Gary Justis Appoints Three: Regina Allen, Chris Kahler, and Brian Schuetz, Lineage Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

GRANTS & AWARDS 2013 2011 2010 2008 2007 2006 2004

Emerging Arts Administrators Fellowship, National Council of Arts Administartors Redden Grant, Eastern Illinois University Redden Grant, Eastern Illinois University Paintingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Edge Residency, Idyllwild, CA Paintingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Edge Residency, Idyllwild, CA Honorable Mention, Drawing/Watercolor: Illinois - 16th Biennial Exhibition, Tarble Arts Center, Charleston, IL Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont. Artist Grant Art St. Louis XIX, Art St. Louis Gallery, Saint Louis, Missouri, Award of Excellence, One of Five, Best in Show. Juror: David Pagel Achievement and Contribution Award, in the Balanced Category, Eastern Illinois University Honorable Mention, Body of Work, Rockford Midwestern Exhibition College Travel Fund Award, Eastern Illinois University 2003 Southern Illinois Artists Exhibition, Mitchell Museum, Mount Vernon, Illinois, Painting Honorarium Award 2002 Faculty Development Mini-Grant, Eastern Illinois University College Travel Fund Award, Eastern Illinois University Redden Grant, Eastern Illinois University 1997 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, Vermont, Artist Grant 1995 11th Annual All-Illinois Graduate Art Exhibition, Jones Resident Prize 1993-95 Teaching Assistant Scholarship, Department of Art Theory and Practice, Northwestern University 1993 Department of Art Theory and Practice, Northwestern University, TA Scholarship (2 years) 24th Bradley National print and Drawing Exhibition Award 1991-92 Teaching Assistant Scholarship, Eastern Illinois University OTHER 1999 - Present

Professor, Painting/Drawing, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, Illinois

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ARTISTS Laura Beard Lisa K. Blatt Bunny Burson Carmon Colangelo Alex Couwenberg Jill Downen Yvette Drury Dubinsky Beverly Fishman Damon Freed Douglass Freed Joan Hall

Richard Hull Ellen Jantzen Michael Jantzen Kelley Johnson Howard Jones (Estate) Chris Kahler Bill Kohn (Estate) Leslie Laskey Peter Marcus Patricia Olynyk Gary Passanise

Judy Pfaff Daniel Raedeke Tom Reed Frank Schwaiger Charles Schwall Christina Shmigel Thomas Sleet Shane Simmons Buzz Spector Cindy Tower Ken Worley

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