Oliver Vernon

Oliver Vernon: Macro/Micro
Paintings and On-site Sculpture
April 14 – May 19

Opening Reception with the Artist: Sat. April 14, 6-8 PM
Preview Day: Friday, April 13

Oliver Vernon’s paintings present new visualizations of our interdependent organic and humanly constructed environments. Using multiple layers and planes of space, his paintings capture both macro and micro views of worlds in convergence: a viewer may imagine simultaneously the inconceivably vast spaces of the cosmos, the invisible and infinitesimally small spaces revealed in electron microscope images, and maps of data and information zooming in through networks or laser beams. Vernon achieves this fusion of macro and micro with his own original architecture of space and composition. Planes of space overlap and interconnect, and we see all at once a new visualization of the structures of the city combined with the fluid rhizomes of interconnected organic forms.

Drawing from his roots in the Brooklyn street art and music DJ scenes, Oliver Vernon also combines bold graphic elements that quote graffiti styles fused with meditative and reflective symbols. His work represents a bold and confident fusion of many trajectories in contemporary painting never before combined in one coherent vision: post-pop surrealism and visionary art, high-tech science fiction, figural abstraction, street and graffiti art, and the multi-layered, complex visualizations of artists like Matthew Ritchie, Julie Mehretu, Fred Tomaselli, and Ryan McGinness.