Gavin Brown's enterprise

Gavin Brown’s enterprise announces Space Out an exhibition by Thai artist Udomsak Krisanamis featuring selected works from Krisanamis’s 2011 solo-exhibition at the Kunstverein Freiburg, ‘A Mindful Mission’.

Over the last two decades Krisanamis’s practice has been characterized by his use of collage incorporating newspaper, noodles, cellophane, and paint to form highly built-up reticulated surfaces.

Presented in Space Out is a recent series of paintings that are composed of densely layered acrylic applied vertically with occasional white lines breaking horizontally across. The large elegant surfaces of the works are revealed up close to be rutted and grooved - the evidence of Krisanamis’s obsessive and labor-intensive painting process. Paired with the paintings is a group of collages dripped and splattered with splices of text affixed to the surface, and a scattered pack of upended golf tees - from Chiang Mai to St. Andrews and back again.

Krisanamis was born in 1966 in Bangkok and studied at Chulaongkorn University, Bangkok and the Art Institute of Chicago. Selected solo exhibitions include Kunstverein Freiburg, Freiburg (2011); Kunsthalle Basel, Basel (2003); Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus (2000) and Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (1999) and shows at Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York; Giti Nourbakhsch, Berlin, Victoria Miro, London, and Massimo de Carlo, Milan. His work has also been included in several significant group exhibitions including Imagine Peace, Bangkok Art And Culture Center, Bangkok (2010); Back to Black, Kestnergesellschaft, Hanover (2008); Infinite Painting, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg (2003); Painting at the Edge of the World, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, (2001) Examining Pictures, Whitechapel Art Gallery (1999); Every Day, 11th Biennale of Sydney, (1998); and Project 63, MoMA, (1998).




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