Vertical Tension by Tom Bandage // The Car Wash Debut

The Car Wash* is pleased to make its debut with a solo exhibition of new sculptural forms by Houston based artist Tom Bandage

Friday, February 24th from 5-8pm.

The exhibition is composed of three totems to entropic interiority rendered in steel and aluminum. In these works the artist uses monochromatic grayscale and moderated reflective opacity to establish an encrypted surface.

The materials contain the possibility for reflection but eschew this in their natural state, creating a mask layer which simultaneously invites and rejects the viewer.

The physics of tension generates the forms, which are pressure bound from either side. Their geometric configuration dictates their orientation under this tension.

Physics, Anatomy, Violence, and Stoicism are all reasonable points of departure in the investigation of the work’s libidinal qualities. These are direct and immediate interpretations.

However, they limit the viewer from accessing the full figured liminal state of the artworks which evades semiotic interpretation.

*The Car Wash is a new curatorial project by London Ham and Georgeos Kazilas below Echoes.

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Parking:

There is parking across the street next to Chapultapec.