The Pit - Calculating Infinity
Curated by Adam D. Miller of the The Pit

Opening Reception: Saturday July 20th, 6 – 9pm
Exhibition Dates: July 20th – August 17th, 2019

 Artists: Devendra Banhart, Keith Boadwee, Seth Bogart, Elana Bowsher, Aaron Curry, John DeFazio, Adam D. Miller, Jennifer Rochlin, Mindy Shapero.

 Guerrero gallery is pleased to present Calculating Infinity, a group exhibition curated by Adam D. Miller of the artist-ran LA gallery The Pit. The exhibition will run from July 20 - August 17, 2019 with an opening reception on Saturday July 20th. The exhibition, installed in Guerrero Gallery’s mezzanine project space, will consist of a selection of ceramic objects, drawings, collage, painting, and a mixed media wall relief.  The exhibition brings together a group of artists who’s disparate practices share a common focus based on repetition, both in terms of a singular focus on specific materials or repeating subject matters. The work finds shared territory with that of a number of self taught artists who often continually germinate on a selected medium or theme in their practices continuing to expand or refine their work within these limited parameters over the course of their careers.

 Artists such as Seth Bogart, Keith Boadwee, and Aaron Curry have spent much of their practice working with the same or similar subject matters revisiting the same iconography again and again. Seth Bogart’s small scale ceramics have produced a vast array of humorous tooth brushes, and match books (for this exhibition the match books feature San Francisco gay bars).  Sexualized male frogs have been rendered again and again with thick gestural moves by Keith Boadwee. The collage works of Aaron Curry continually include found cartoon imagery often of aliens and monsters as a means for setting up his didactic juxtapositions.

 The other half of the artists included in the show use repetition in a more formal way through specific repeated gestures or a singular focus on specific materials. Mindy Shapero’s wall bound sculptural relief was constructed of shaped wood and the repeating gesture of gluing small strips of felt over and over again to create a swirling portal. This focus on the repetition of small gestures to create large affect is found again and again through her practice. As is the repeating hatch marks found throughout the drawings of Adam D. Miller, who’s colorful and energetic graphite drawings are then meticulously filled in with a repeating gesture. Jennifer Rocklin’s practice centers on her ongoing series of blobby and roughly formed ceramic pots, which are then used as a ground for the artist to paint with underglazes repeating motifs, at times personal narratives, in other works repeating patterns.