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CLAIRE OLIVER GALLERY - ARTIST: Andrew Erdos

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Andrew Erdos:
Invaluable
February 26th, 2015 - April 4th, 2015

Claire Oliver Gallery is pleased to present 
Andrew Erdos: Invaluable February 26 
through April 4, 2015 

Opening Reception with the Artist 
Thursday, February 26, 6-8 pm

“Both Art and Science are bent on the 
understanding of the forces that shape 
existence, and both call for a dedication 
to what is”.
-Rudolf Arnheim

The intangible and physical forces that 
shape our planet foster many questions 
that remain unanswered. Although Man 
attempts to find a scientific underpinning 
in his search for explanations, many are 
validated in part through faith, be it 
religious, philosophical or mystical. Andrew 
Erdos: Invaluable, is the artist's 
investigation into these constructs and the 
conceptual departure point for his new 
work, which is realized through sculpture 
and photography.

Erdos' search began in the desert 
southwest at the mystical four corners of 
the Navajo Nation. The artist sought out 
the 25 million year old monolithic 
Shiprock. A geological anomaly, this 
mountain formation is a sacred symbol of 
mythology for cultures both ancient and 
present. Mountain, a site specific
sculpture that rises from the floor as if 
forced by tectonic energy, is the tangible 
result of his elusory experiences at that 
desert site. The work is lit from within, 
and made by layering broken glass and 
other silica based detritus that Erdos 
collected from the land surrounding 
Shiprock. Installed with ample room
for visitors to circle it, it is the artist's 
intent that the viewer becomes an active 
element of the work. I want to create an 
experience that people from a wide 
spectrum of cultures, ages and life
experiences can look at, relate to, and 
connect with on a simple basic and 
unspoken level.” 

Standing beside Mountain, like a 
sentinel, is Edenquest for Light, a two 
way mirror glass vitrine that contains a 
creature of indeterminate lineage or 
perhaps some future outcome of natural 
selection. Wearing a disarmingly 
humorous expression, he marches 
through time eternal. The artist creates 
the sculpture from mouth blown glass 
that is then hand lined with sterling 
silver. The reflections of the animal and 
his surrounding landscape are echoed 
back on the observer in an eternal loop.

On the long east wall of the gallery, the 
viewer is engulfed in a spectacular 
expanse of 32 sumptuous photographs, 
taken throughout the artist's 18 month 
exploration of the desert and it's 
mysteries. The images are luscious, 
breath-taking and thought provoking. 
Are we looking at the geological
beginnings of time, or the abandoned 
skyline of a dystopic future?

Invaluable is Andrew Erdos second solo 
exhibition with Claire Oliver, and a 
continuation of his ongoing endeavor to 
create visual metaphors for the complex 
and enigmatic postulates of time, physics 
and faith.

Andrew Erdos, (b. 1985) graduated with a 
BFA from Alfred University. His work has 
been exhibited worldwide including 
Beijing China, St Petersburg Russia, 
London UK and throughout the United
States. The youngest recipient of the 
Rakow Commission, (Corning Museum of 
Glass) Erdos' work is included in many 
private and museum collections including 
The New Britain Museum of American
Art, CT, Toledo Museum of Art, OH and 
the Knoxville Museum of Art, TN. The artist 
lives and works in Brooklyn.

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