If you’ve ever wondered what it looks like when the shit really does hit the fan, then a dual show by Mark Dorf and Julian Lorber provides the answer – and it’s not pretty. The dirt encrusted office fan is on display at Outlet Fine Art, Brooklyn, as the pair join forces for the Second Nature exhibition. However, the piece is something of an anomaly in respect to the rest of the show, which is largely a wall-mounted exploration of the natural world through light, colour and texture.
Of the two artists, Lorber is perhaps the more abstract, creating built-up surface layers with an overlay of airbrush paint whose fine particle-like pigments suggest the incremental aggregation of sooty pollutants, while the layering of the materials give the works the appearance of cracked ice in a lurid fluid. Dorf, in contrast, uses a mix of photography and digital media in a “post-analogue experience”. In his Emergent series the artist comments on the influence of the information age on our perception of the natural world, viewing technology, science and maths as filters through which we experience reality. Second Nature runs until 15 February.
Mark Dorf,
Emergent #19, 2014
Giclée print, 30″ x 25″
ed 1/7
Julian Lorber
Gaffe Penetrant, 2014
Acrylic paint and resin on wood panel
38 x 32 inches
Mark Dorf
Translated Mesh #2, 2014
Giclée Print, 30″ x 30″
ed 1/7
Mark Dorf
Emergent #10, 2014
Giclée print, 30″ x 23″
ed 1/7
Julian Lorber
Line Aphasia_ Torrential Amber at Dawn, 2014
Acrylic paint and resin on wood panel
38 x 32 inches
