October 2018, Silas von Morisse is pleased to present Owen Schuh second solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition will be held at ChaShaMa (Space to Present) in Manhattan, 7 East 14th St. See open hours below.

Owen Schuh draws his inspiration from mathematical rules, algorithms and complex organic systems. In particular, he is fascinated by simple sets of well-defined rules that generate unexpectedly intricate and nuanced structures. His work is painstakingly created by hand using pencils, paint, a compass and, at most, the aid of a pocket calculator.

Owen Schuh, Unfolding A Cube is a visual investigation of different methods and orders for unfolding a simple form, the cube: 3 dimensions, 6 facets, 8 vertices and 12 edges become one surface of varying configurations. These eleven ‘nets’ of a cube are typically represented in Tetris-like diagrams in geometry. However, Schuh's paintings and drawings use these ‘nets’ as a starting point to visually explore the interrelatedness and extra-linguistic meaning of all possible futures, together. Dürer’s conjecture describes that a convex three-dimensional figure, cut along its edges and unfolded, can be flattened without overlapping upon itself. A simple thing gets simpler, no plot-twists. Fascinatingly, seven cuts from form to flat manifest unexpectedly elaborate shared and divergent fates, and illuminating them gets exponentially more complicated, especially once you start distinguishing between right and left hand, and coloring the faces of the cube, etc. Much as Sol Lewitt’s Incomplete Open Cubes demonstrates, the iterative exploration of these ‘unfoldings’ can lead us to even further considerations, where we are able to creatively study and marvel at not only the elegant numerations, but also the relationships between each of the possibilities. All futures witnessed simultaneously, time compressed and experience expanded. Unending complexity birthed from simple methods and straightforward actions. Schuh's work seeks to illuminate the entwining relations between embodied mind, mathematics, and the physical world. His artwork is structured by mathematical functions and iterations, which though relatively simple in nature yield outcomes of surprising organic complexity. In each piece Schuh strives to manifest phenomena unique to the interaction between the physical medium and the logical structure.

OWEN SCHUH UNFOLDING A CUBE

Oct 27 - Nov 17, 2018

Opening Reception Saturday Oct 27, 5 - 8 PM

ChaShaMa (Space to Present)

7 East 14th Street 

New York City, NY 10003

Open hours 

Wednesday: 11am - 6pm
Thurday: 11am - 6pm
Friday: 11am - 6pm
Saturday: 11am - 6pm 

PLEASE CONTACT THE GALLERY FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT THE PAINTINGS 

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