Jeremy McGirl : Horizons

Huston Gallery

September 9 - October 3, 2008

Opening Reception

Thursday, September 4
5pm - 8pm

Lost, Jeremy McGirl

Part of the commanding presence of Jeremy McGirl’s painting, On The Road, is its sheer size. It measures 12 feet across - the size of a barn door, if one sees this as a landscape of the American West. Indeed, much of Jeremy’s work is about the viewer’s expectations – what you bring to the work – as it is about evocating mood and space, and creating a sense of place, real or imagined.

Jeremy McGirl, Highway

The title of Jeremy's upcoming solo show, Horizons, sums up the characteristic double entendre of many of his paintings. In the context of his show, which will include a range of mixed media work such as photo transfer, drawing and painting on blocks of wood, Horizons, he said, can be interpreted as edge of a landscape or the distant future. In some ways, Jeremy's background – he grew up in a fast-growing suburb of Denver – if reflected in his method of reworking or re fabricating a landscape. Lost, a horizontal work of repeating images, for instance, appears to disintegrate as one looks from left to right. When We Get to Houston similarly reflects his interest in conveying landscape as both a place and a memory.