“INFILTRATION”

Claudia Chaseling

July 13 to August 30, 2012

Opening reception: Friday, July 13, 2012, 6 - 9 pm

Claudia Chaseling’s exhibition at Slag Gallery, opening date 13th July 2012, will be the artist’s first solo show in the United States. Infiltration, the title of her show, brings together a large site-specific wall-and floor painting and – inserted into the installation - works on paper, paintings on canvas and the artist’s comic book Murphy the Mutant.

Chaseling resists any sense of hierarchy of surface within the show: whether it is painting on the wall, canvas, floor or paper, or drawings captured in video, her colors assert strong physical presence.

Employing, for the most part, the traditional mediums of egg tempera and oil paint, the artists creates futuristic swirls of organic from, upside down landscapes and bright fluorescent wave structures. Her imagery consists of mutated animals and plants whose deformation is caused by radioactive poisoning.

An eerie depth opens in each work, drawing the viewers into an alienated world. Images of places and landscapes, once so familiar, are now distorted. Through the large wall/floor paintings the gallery space loses a part of its geometric order and balance. The perceptual interference of the paintings is subtle and is at first only perceived intuitively, forcing the viewer to question, what causes this sensation.

Claudia Chaseling was born 1973 in Munich and received two Masters in Visual Art degrees, from the University of the Arts in Berlin and the Australian National University in Canberra, respectively. Recent exhibitions include a solo presentation at the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany, the Bogart Salon in New York (with a work described as „stunning“ by artcritical.com) and the Lulea Art Biennial LAB 11 in Sweden. Major grants and scholarships received in Australia and Germany – include those of the German Academic Exchange Service, the Samstag Scholarship and the Studio Award of the Karl Hofer Society. She has taken part in a number of international artists residencies at Burlington City Arts, Vermont (Seven Below Residency), the Texas A&M University in College Station, and the School of Art, Australian National University in Canberra.



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