Golden Rule - JANUARY 2011 - TEDD NASH POMASKI

JANUARY 2011: TEDD NASH POMASKI 07/03/2010

First Friday Opening Reception: January 7, 2010, 7-10 p.m.
Golden Rule Gallery, 811 E. Burnside, Suite 122, Portland, OR 97214
Show runs January 6 through January 30th,
Concurrent with Tedd Nash Pomaski's show, At the Foot of the Lighthouse, at Bose Pacia in Brooklyn, NY

'Untitled (Static Field),' by Tedd Nash Pomaski (2010). Graphite on Paper, 13x13 inches.

SHOW STATEMENT

Tedd Nash Pomaski’s Willful Obedience seeks equilibrium between the polarities of light and dark, absence and presence, movement and stillness, past and future, pleasure and pain. As an exhibition, Willful Obedience is comprised of a carefully curated collection of graphite drawings on paper that are meant to be representative of the latitude and longitude of Nash Pomaski’s many years of tireless practice.

One body of work—static fields—focuses on the time between places on the drawing timeline. The other body of work—Nash Pomaski’s “thematic suites” including the waves of his Hawaiian homeland, hospital interiors, his mother’s gardenia’s, physical and metaphorical roads traveled, real or imagined homes lived in, and the geometric and organic intermingling of life—is illustrative of moments along the drawing timeline. Both bodies of work evidence Nash Pomaski’s obedience to a ceaseless directive—a compulsion, if you will—to draw.

Utilizing a variety of analog and digital source material—videos, still images, digital manipulations, rubbings, tracings, gridded enlargements, projections of primary drawings—Nash Pomaski employs numerous technical filters to act as protective layers of removal. By doing so he is able to simultaneously distance himself from while immersing himself in the emotional intensity and oppositional emptiness of the world inside and around him. Through this sometimes meditative and sometimes maddening process of gestation, production, distillation, and gestation again, Nash Pomaski moves closer and closer with each step towards reaching what he calls “an essence”—a clarity, a singularity of experience, a perfect (but specific and personal) place of acceptance—in the physical and psychic spaces he is compelled to find and translate.

As products, the individual pieces in Willful Obedience issue their own peaceful but persistent directives: follow your intuition, seek balance and believe, somehow, somewhere, you’ll find it. As a collection, Willful Obedience is a reminder that by reducing the unmanageable down to the smallest most manageable element—the line, the absence of, the eraser mark, or the absence of—progress is possible.

Tedd Nash Pomaski studied painting and Architecture at the Rhode Island School of Design (BFA, 2005). He has exhibited in solo and group shows in New York, Baltimore, Providence, Portland, Turin, and Tokyo, and participates in art organizations in the US and abroad. He was born in Hilo, Hawaii (1975), and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. If he could do anything with anyone alive or dead in the world, he would eat burgers with Stanley Kubrick.

'Untitled Study,' by Tedd Nash Pomaski (2010). Graphite on paper, 13x13 inches. Photo courtesy of Bose Pacia.

'Untitled Study,' by Tedd Nash Pomaski (2010). Graphite on paper, 13x13 inches. Photo Courtesy of Bose Pacia.

'Untitled (Static Field),' by Tedd Nash Pomaski (2010). Graphite on Paper, 13x13 inches.

'Untitled (Lens),' by Tedd Nash Pomaski (2010). Graphite on Paper, 13x13 inches.

'Untitled (Gardenias),' by Tedd Nash Pomaski (2010). Graphite on Paper, 13x13 inches.

'Untitled (Gardenias),' by Tedd Nash Pomaski (2010). Graphite on Paper, 13x13'

'Untitled (Waves),' by Tedd Nash Pomaski (2010). Graphite on Paper, 13x13 inches.

'Untitled (View)' by Tedd Nash Pomski (2010). Graphite on Paper, 13x13 inches.

'Untitled (Sleep Walker),' by Tedd Nash Pomaski (2010). Graphite on Paper, 13x13 inches. Photo Courtesy of Bose Pacia.

All pieces in will Willful Obedience are available for purchase through Golden Rule, Portland, OR, or Bose Pacia, Brooklyn, NY. Proceeds from some sales will benefit a charitable cause. Contact Wynde Dyer at info@goldenruleportland.com or (503) 477-5124 for more information. Those interested in purchasing pieces from Willful Obedience that directly inform the work in Tedd Nash Pomaski’s concurrent show, At the Foot at the Lighthouse, will be referred to Bose Pacia, 163 Plymouth Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201. For direct inquiries please contact Rebecca Davis at Bose Pacia by email or at (212) 989-7074, Tuesday-Saturday, 11-6 p.m.

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