Joshua Cardoso
In his drawings, Cardoso has created a formal language, in which
letters, numbers, and glyphs swarm and cluster in frenzied movements,
finite but unfixed. The accumulation of tiny marks creates a highly
seductive microscopic or cosmic myriad as observed through the
apparatus of science or a non-ordinary state of consciousness. The
seemingly intangible forms evoke both a scientistic knowledge of
nature and a personal confrontation with the sublime.
The artist takes perception itself as his subject, exploring it
through multiple points of departure and media. Contrasting the cosmic
point of view in the drawings, the sculptures - made of plywood and
plexiglass for this exhibition - monumentalize such concepts as the
four cardinal directions or the bi-cameral brain. His perspective
reflects elements of biological psychology, the new physics, the
post-structuralist philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, as
well as the symbols and cosmologies of different mystical traditions.
Cardoso received his BFA from the Cooper Union in 2004, where he
studied with Hans Haacke, Andrea Fraser, and Walid Raad, among others.
For more information on the artist http://www.artinfo.com/
Copyright Thomas Erben Gallery
Shown by
Thomas Erben Gallery, New York
letters, numbers, and glyphs swarm and cluster in frenzied movements,
finite but unfixed. The accumulation of tiny marks creates a highly
seductive microscopic or cosmic myriad as observed through the
apparatus of science or a non-ordinary state of consciousness. The
seemingly intangible forms evoke both a scientistic knowledge of
nature and a personal confrontation with the sublime.
The artist takes perception itself as his subject, exploring it
through multiple points of departure and media. Contrasting the cosmic
point of view in the drawings, the sculptures - made of plywood and
plexiglass for this exhibition - monumentalize such concepts as the
four cardinal directions or the bi-cameral brain. His perspective
reflects elements of biological psychology, the new physics, the
post-structuralist philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, as
well as the symbols and cosmologies of different mystical traditions.
Cardoso received his BFA from the Cooper Union in 2004, where he
studied with Hans Haacke, Andrea Fraser, and Walid Raad, among others.
For more information on the artist http://www.artinfo.com/
Copyright Thomas Erben Gallery
Shown by
Thomas Erben Gallery, New York
