Presented and curated by Franklin Parrasch at Analog Diary
Find Iva at Analog Diary in Long Walk Off a Short Pier: Abstraction and the Afterlife, an exhibition of recent works by Latifa Alajlan, Anne Appleby, Joseph Brock, Ernesto Burgos, Ted Gahl, Iva Gueorguieva, Kristy Luck, and Yukine Yanagi.
The pier is short, concrete, tangible, and seemingly known - and the walk is long: often a meandering, overlapping journey with rest stops and view points along the way. But the walk can also be a straight line, long still but right off the pier into another pier-less realm. That's where abstraction comes in. The boundless space where nothing and no one is moored, and where the pier - a mere starting point - fades from memory. The story of what's next, after the walk on the pier is through, is the story these eight painters tell.