Chris Kahler: Metaphemeral by Bruno David Gallery

CHRIS KAHLER Metaphemeral

bruno david gallery

CHRIS KAHLER Metaphemeral

November 10 - December 23, 2016 Bruno David Gallery 7513 Forsyth Boulevard St. Louis, MO 63105 U.S.A. info@brunodavidgallery.com www.brunodavidgallery.com Owner/Director: Bruno L. David This catalogue was published in conjunction with the exhibition Chris Kahler: Metaphemeral Editor: Bruno L. David Catalogue Designer: Ashley Lee and Thomas J. Fruhauf Designer Assistant: Claudia R. David Printed in USA All works courtesy of Bruno David Gallery and Chris Kahler Photographs by Bruno David Gallery and Chris Kahler Cover image:

Meta 1A, 2016 Acrylic on canvas 60 x 84 inches (152.4.2 x 213.4 cm)

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CONTENTS

A CONVERSATION with REHEMA BARBER and CHRIS KAHLER Afterword BY BRUNO L. DAVID CHECKLIST AND IMAGES OF THE EXHIBITION BIOGRAPHY

A CONVERSATION WITH REHEMA BARBER and CHRIS KAHLER 2

Rehema Barber: How did you get started in the arts? Why did you decide to concentrate on painting? Chris Kahler: As long as I can remember, I loved to draw. It helps that my Mom has spent most of her life working in watercolors, but she did not like exhibiting her work. My father was an architect; and so I was really inspired by his designs and his work ethic. I had success early on in high school with my work, but stepped back from art classes during my sophomore and junior year. It was during my senior year that I aggressively returned to art making. I had great teachers and was mentored in all the right ways to help me come to the understanding that this was my calling. I loved oil painting right away, but printmaking was my second love. I was really interested in the processes of Intaglio, which is a foreshadowing to my love of process. I have been painting non-stop since 1988. Barber: Once you realized you wanted to be an artist, how did you achieve your goals? Kahler: Marty Kalb was my painting professor in college and working with him was my first experience with a teaching professional artist. What impressed me was that his studio was attached to the classroom; and he was devoted to his work and teaching. If Marty wanted you to come into his office, you had to walk through his studio so you had to see all of his paintings in progress, along with many sorted works. It was impressive. I remember thinking: “this is the life for me.” Marty loved painting; and it did not take me long to devote my life to it as well. Marty was always challenging me to do better; and he demonstrated a lot of faith in my ability to succeed. I started out as an English major, but knew from the start I wanted to major in Art. By the end of my sophomore year, he had taken over my advising and encouraged me to pursue my BFA. He taught me how to think like a painter; and he provided me with the confidence to look at the practice of painting as a career. I then went on for my MA at Eastern Illinois University and my MFA at Northwestern University after college. Barber: Who are the artists who’ve impacted you throughout your career? Kahler: In college, I was focused on artists like Rembrandt and Caravaggio. However, throughout my youth, my parents loved to take me to the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and the Art Institute of Chicago. In the mid 80’s, seeing a David Salle survey impacted me a great deal; and then seeing Damien Hirst’s work for the first time, was also a big moment for me. Francis Bacon was a major influence in graduate school; at Northwestern, I was really thinking a lot about the work of Terry Winters and Ross Bleckner. This was

around 1994/95 and I remember being blown away by Blecknerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum in NYC. Seeing his Neo Op Art work was awesome. I also started to think about surfaces in a different way after seeing so many of his works in person. Also at Northwestern, I had amazing mentors like Ed Paschke, William Conger and James Valerio that affirmed my commitment to painting. I quickly became more interested in abstraction and its potential. I would also have to say Wangechi Mutu and Mark Bradford were huge influences in 2009 and 2010. Both summers I was at a residency out in California called Paintingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Edge, and I got to have long conversations with both of them. Their critiques and the time I was able to spend with them discussing art and other topics, led to a major break-through in my work. Barber: In this show, Metaphemeral, what was your process for making the works, was it different from recent exhibits of your work? Kahler: I have had twelve solo shows, since 2004 that have led me into this exhibition. Each show is a conversation I have been having with myself about how I can push the idea of organic systems and there relationship to linear elements. In many ways, I have been exploring the relationship of organic abstraction and architecture. Going back to my interest in zinc plate etching, I love to sand my paintings and develop many layers throughout the process of making a work. I am very aggressive with my surfaces. This drove me to primarily work on panels for the last 11 years. This current show brought me back to some works on canvas, which threw me off my game because I had to develop processes of editing that focused on an additive process, rather then subtractive. Using canvases forced me to come up with some new solutions; and that is why I started using stencils for glazing between layers. It was a new thing for me, but fun in many ways. Barber: Can you talk more about the additive/subtractive process and the use of stencils for glazing between layers? Kahler: I start each work with a layer of that is intentionally in strong saturated colors that will contrast with the final layer of the painting. These colors are revealed as an underlying glow of my successive transparent layers. Rather than approaching the work as layers of opaque color, I prefer to build up with transparent and semi-transparent colors. The stencils were a new addition because it forced me to create a series of different organic shapes with varying sizes. It created a familiar pattern throughout the work. This was most evident in the two works in the show called Meta 1A and Meta 3A.

Barber: What were you thinking about while making these works? Why the title of Metaphemeral? Kahler: Something that was a catalyst during the making of this show was a new job. I had been teaching painting the past eighteen years at Eastern Illinois University, but accepted the position of Department Chair. With this new role in my life, I had to care for an ailing professor in my department. She was in and out of the hospital over the course of a few months and sadly, passed away the month before my show. The title of the show came from my interest in the idea of how ephemeral things can be in life and in an artwork. To pinpoint the specific meaning in the work is not really the point. I know I had a lot on my mind at the time; and I was fascinated by the idea of a painting existing in a moment that looks like its becoming something concrete, while at the same time it may be fleeting or in a state of transition. Barber: Were the works in Metaphemeral planned in advance? How spontaneous are they? Kahler: Yes, there is a plan to get me into a work â&#x20AC;&#x201C; I wanted these works to be organic and architectural â&#x20AC;&#x201C; they are transitioning and balancing in an uncomfortable way. However, I need every work to have a degree of uncertainty for at least 80% of the process. If I have too much of a plan, it does get stale rather quickly for me. This has been a problem of mine since graduate school; and it likely goes back to my distaste to be too illustrative with my ideas. Barber: How does Meta 5A play into the series of works? I am interested in the juxtaposition of linear and organic forms and the fluidity of the lines? Kahler: That is an interesting painting and it was one of the last ones to get finished for the show. The first layer of it was a painting from my solo show in 2007 called Viral. That works had an acidic yellow and lime green layer that was masked with an organic pattern of liquid latex. As this show was coming together, I knew that it needed another piece to tie together some of my ideas. This work inspired me to keep layering using some of the techniques I was using in the other works. One of my strengths/weaknesses is my tendency to have many works in various stages of creation at the same time. I enjoy finishing a show simultaneously. In this way, I leave the door open for discoveries. This work in particular, became a throw back to some techniques I was using back in 2012 to make some grid works; and I combined it with some of the layering techniques I developed in this body of work. Saturated color as a tool to develop a tension of depth was a lot of fun in the work. In almost every solo show that I have ever done, it has a piece that indicates the potential of a new path to explore.

Barber: So was Meta 5A this work for the show? Will you be picking up on this thread/train of thought in the next show? Kahler: Yes, Meta 5A was one of those works that opened a door for another exploration. It was a work that I was unsure would make the final cut, but once we got it in the space. It created an amazing conversation with the rest of the show; and now, I couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t imagine the show without it. Bruno has a great eye and we worked out an installation that brought it all together. Barber: What are you working on now in your studio? And what excites you most about whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s currently happening in your work? Kahler: In the studio, I am working on a new series of works on paper. I am still curious about this odd combination of the grid and organic forms that are constantly shifting. I want to combine drawing into some of these works, but I am still trying to figure out that relationship. The first few works have been pretty challenging and I hope to get myself into an uncomfortable place. I am also working on some large-scale panels (not for the upcoming works on paper show) that are exploring similar ideas, but I am sanding between layers. These works have been progressing over the past five months, so I am trying to be more patient with them and allow them to evolve more naturally. The best part of my process is not having a clear vision of what a work will look like in the end. That sense of wonder and surprise is something I am always pursuing.

Rehema Barber is the Director and Chief Curator of the Tarble Arts Center at Eastern Illinois University. She has worked for various institutions such as: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s School of Art + Design, University of Memphis, Memphis College of Art, Power House Memphis, and The Amistad Center at the Wadsworth Athenueum Museum of Art. Barber has been a participant in The Japan Foundation’s Curatorial Exchange Program, the Getty Leadership Institute: The Next Generation, the Henry Luce Foundation Jewish Art Institute at NYU, and a Saint Louis Art Museum Romare Bearden Fellow. Notable exhibitions include Bare Walls, No Boundaries and Young Americans at the Wadsworth Atheneum; Everywhere, Nowhere, Somewhere at Power House Memphis; Social Habitat: The Porch Project by Heather Hartand Painting Is Dead?! at Figure One, University of Illinois School of Art + Design’s off-campus project space; Venturing Out of the Heart of Darkness at the Harvey B. Gantt Center; and a Dark Matter…for the Tarble Arts Center. She has also written for various publications and blogs such as The Commercial Appeal, Fiber Arts, International Review of African American Art, Number Magazine, and Sixty Inches From Center among other outlets. Barber holds a B.A. from Roosevelt University, an M.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a certification in Elementary and Secondary Art Education from the University of Missouri, Saint Louis. This text is one in a series of the gallery’s exhibitions written by fellow gallery artists and friends.

AFTERWORD BY BRUNO L. DAVID 8

I am pleased to present a new exhibition titled “METAPHEMERAL” by Chris Kahler at the Bruno David Gallery. This is his eight exhibition with the gallery. The new series offers a unique body of work emerging from the questioning of linear possibilities and systematic process. The new work pertains to the concepts of destruction and regeneration, and the rhythm of emerging forms. Kahler’s exploration of negative space, light, and intersecting planes has resulted in arresting juxtapositions of biomorphic and ephemeral forms. Similar to previous works he explores the “boundaries between physical and psychological time, between phenomena and the variable conceptual filters for understanding them.” Chris Kahler is the Department Chair and 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). He lives and works in Illinois. 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 Rehema Barber for her thoughtful interview of Chris Kahler. I am deeply grateful to Ashley Lee and Thomas J. Fruhauf, 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, Ashley Lee, Xizi Liu, Marisa Drewes, Charis Schneider, and Paula Stevenson.

CHECKLIST & IMAGES OF THE EXHIBITION

Meta 1A, 2016 Acrylic on canvas 60 x 84 inches (152.4 x 213.4 cm)

Meta 4A, 2016 Acrylic on panel 54 x 48 inches (137.2 x 122 cm)

Meta 5A, 2016 Acrylic on canvas 48 x 48 inches (122 x 122 cm)

Meta 2A, 2016 Acrylic on canvas 36 x 72 inches (91.4 x 182.9 cm)

Meta 3A, 2016 Acrylic on canvas 36 x 36 inches (91.4 x 91.4 cm)

Dialumens C-12, 2015 Acrylic on panel 30 x 40 inches (76.2 x 101.6 cm)

Meta 6A, 2016 Acrylic on paper 26 x 22 inches (66.04 x 55.88 cm)

Meta 7A, 2016 Acrylic on paper 26 x 22 inches (66.04 x 55.88 cm)

Meta 1A (detail)

Meta 2A (detail)

Meta 5A (detail)

Meta 4A (detail)

Chris Kahler: Methaphemeral (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 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2007 2006 2004 2002 1997

Bruno David Gallery, Chris Kahler: Metaphemeral, St. Louis, Missouri (catalogue) Bruno David Gallery, Chris Kahler: On Paper, St. Louis, Missouri (catalogue) River Campus Art Gallery, Chris Kahler: Emanations, Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau, Missouri Bruno David Gallery, Chris Kahler: Dialumens, St. Louis, Missouri (catalogue) Richard M. Ross Art Museum, Chris Kahler, Delaware, Ohio 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, Florida David Richard Contemporary, Bio-Dynamic, Santa Fe, New Mexico (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 2017 OVERVIEW_2017, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri (catalogue) 2016 Chicago Paints, The University of Ohio Art Gallery, Athens, OHIO Burst of Memory, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri 2015 AND / OR, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri (catalogue) OVERVIEW_2015, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri 2014 Analogons, Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, Missouri OVERVIEW_2014, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MIssouri 2013 Chroma Exploda: Contemporary Paintings, River Art Gallery, Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau, Missouri BLUE-WHITE-RED, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri 2012 W.O.P. I, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri 2011 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, Missouri (catalogue) 2010 Gallery Artists, Bruno David Gallery (Project Room), St. Louis, Missouri 2009 NEXT, Art Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, (Bruno David Gallery) Overview_09, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri 2008 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 2007 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, Indiana Paper Now, I Space, Chicago, Illinois Overview_07, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri 2006 Drawing & Watercolor, Tarble Arts Center, Charleston, Illinois Overview_06, Bruno David Gallery, Saint Louis, Missouri 2005 Inaugural Exhibition, Bruno David Gallery, Saint Louis, Missouri Le Papier, Gescheidle Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

2005 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 2004 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 2004 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 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 2003 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 2002 Polka-dots and Squiggly Things, Gescheidle Gallery, Chicago, Illinois Inspired in Illinois, Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences, Peoria, Illinois 2001 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 2000 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 1997 John Almquist Gallery, Dismantling Beauty: Christopher Kahler and Armin Mersmann. North Shore Country Day School, Winnetka, Illinois 1996 Gary Justis Appoints Three: Regina Allen, Chris Kahler, and Brian Schuetz, Lineage Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

GRANTS & AWARDS 2015 2013 2011 2010 2008 2007 2006 2004

Distinguished Alum Exhibitors Award, Ohio Wesleyan University 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, California Paintingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Edge Residency, Idyllwild, California Honorable Mention, Drawing/Watercolor: Illinois - 16th Biennial Exhibition, Tarble Arts Center, Charleston, Illinois 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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