Come Together | DLG Group Exhibition

COME TOGETHER

Come Together

10 June - 28 July 2024

DLG Nashville

Charkes Hickey

Alena Mehić

Tyler René Angelo

Billy Renkl

David Lusk Gallery

Galen Gibson-Cornell announces that it’s time to Come Together.

This exhibition features five artists, all with some southern roots, and all combine common (street posters, 3d pens, volcanic ash, vinyl wallpaper, canceled stamps from around the world) yet non-traditional media into interactive artworks. Come together, observe, consider, and be surprised by art in an accessible, languid-summer kind of way.

Charles Hickey

Utilizing 3D gel pens, which produce a plastic-like fiber, Hickey considers these pens the "brushstrokes” that compose his art. This 21st-century material helps give a fresh perspective to seemingly mundane still life images and small food objects.

Using the medium's novelty imbues his pictured icons with a stylized presence that demands consideration: why are these works pictured together? what does the egg have to do with the dog bone? why the chair? oh, it’s a meal!

Hickey's approach prompts engagement with these objects in a way that transcends their ordinary significance, and then comes the realization that his medium is not just paint….

Galen Gibson-Cornell

Gibson-Cornell’s woven street poster artwork offers a distinctive approach to collage. He repurposes found materials to create intricate paper installations that float off the wall. The process that this lucky guy has developed involves international travel and the collecting of street posters and flyers. He carefully peels or quickly rips the posters from the window, wall or telephone pole where they promoted some event. Later in his studio he slices them into strips and weaves them together, altering and distorting the original image - but maintaining the essence. These woven pieces become travel journals that serve as tangible markers of urban environments, specific times and performances.

Alena Mehić

Drawing from her family's immigration from Bosnia, Mehić’s works are focused on interiors and the concept of place. For this installation, Mehić has created postcards that feature Central and Eastern European interiors - exploring domestic spaces and the faux-domestic illusions found in hotels. Mehić alters and abstracts architectural references from family archives, online sources, and state-issued photos and videos, combining elements to highlight the intertwining of artifacts and propaganda.

This approach reveals the persistent longing of an individual, who is perpetually searching for a familiar place that no longer exists. The postcards are mounted on vinyl wallpaper designed to be enticing and hypnotizing, adding a layer of discomfort to the domestic and stylistic themes. This feature further explores the tension between the familiar and the unsettling.

Tyler René Angelo

Sculptor Angelo sculpts objects that challenge the audience's perspectives on traditional art, physical spaces, and belonging. His tables, crafted from molded volcanic ash, stand out as beautifully designed, functional pieces until they hang on the wall and become Art. The surfaces of Angelo’s art typically feature molded ripples, curves, and round-overs that are reminiscent of mid-1960s minimal abstract paintings. His work bridges art and furniturebelieving that both can benefit from greater integration of one another.

Billy Renkl

Renkl’s work intricately weaves the history of found materials to craft compelling stories. This group, Groundcover, showcased the analog dissemination of ideas through the postal service, reflecting the worldwide spread of letters, the stamp collectors' recognition of envelopes as "covers,” and the botanical spreading of flora.

Here Renkl uses as ground a cover (a stamped vintage envelope) which he embellishes with botanical silhouettes. These envelopes serve as fitting canvases, mirroring the way a letter traverses ground to reach its destination. Each aspect of Renkl's work, from the choice of location to the history of the depicted plant, contributes to the rich artistic storytelling.

Assorted fruits and vegetables, 3D pen, $500-800 each

Still Life with Blue Lines, 3D pen on canvas, $1700

Galen Gibson-Cornell

Apocalyptica, found street posters from NYC, $7200

Share My Happiness, found street posters from Berlin and Buenos Aires, $4600

Queen, found street posters from Sofia, Bulgaria,

Artwork List

Groundcover #8: French Guinea to Saint Paul, collage on found envelope with rubber stamp, $700

Groundcover #17: Malaysia 1913, collage on found envelope with rubber stamp, $700

Groundcover #14: Belgium, 1809, collage and watercolor on found envelope with rubber stamp, $700

Groundcover 25: Hungary to Austria, 1900, collage and watercolor on found envelope with rubber stamp, $700

Thisisthebeginning,Oilonpanel,$3250

Wallpaperset1,vinylwallpaper

OriginalPostcardSet1,Whatnow,gouacheonpaper,$350

OriginalPostcardSet1,Echoes,gouachepaintingonpaper,$350

OriginalPostcardSet1,Nightshift,gouachepaintingonpaper,$350

OrginalPostcardSet1,Lunette,gouachepaintingonpaper,$350

Skipping Rocks, volcanic ash, limestone, sand, glass fibers, $12000

Charles Hickey

Alena Mehić

Tyler René Angelo

Billy Renkl