wheres my ship.” In some of Redwood’s past exhibits, he concentrated on eye-opening acrylic and watercolor paintings devising larger than life creatures and landscapes. Currently, his work cycles into an enormous installation of a fifteen-foot-long ship. Using found objects such as cardboard, chandeliers, chairs, shutters, ribbons, pipes, pieces of carpet and pillows, Redwood constructs a meticulous and intricate piece of handiwork. A vase with faux flowers, a tire, a wooden bucket perched above the mast and a wood-carved dog accessorize the exterior of the seafaring object. The vessel also includes a tree branch and various woods acting as poles and planks connecting to and from the mast. Embedded inside the ship lies a TV monitor radiating the soft electronic glow of a sunrise/sunset horizon scene. Oceanscape paintings titled “Wood Planks,” “Muddy Waters” and “Blue Sky” exhibit broad strokes of greens, browns and blues set against the interior body. Isolated from the ship is a painting made from gold leaf featuring ominous gray clouds and floating telephone poles evoking chaos. Redwood takes debris and abandoned parts and turns them into something not only jaw-dropping in scope but also something too exceptional to traverse the choppy seas. (Garin Pirnia) Through October 6 at GALLERY 40000
Lost in Translation: A Review of Crip* at Gallery 400 The strongest works in the exhibition succinctly express the ways the artist relates to their own body while calling out how the artist’s body and body of work has been perceived or coded against norms or ideals.
