Leaving Colours Time

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Opening reception: Saturday, November 20, from 6 to 8 pm

N O M A Gallery is pleased to present Leaving Colours Time, an exhibition of works by Ishan Clemenco. Included in the show are an installation of chalkline drawings on color light filters and film negative strips, and a site-specific work on a large optical filter roll which will be set into the west window of the gallery.

The filter drawings are concerned with reflective, solid-core color values in ultra-low relief. Nearly as flat as paint fields on walls, optical filters are employed for their integral color and their transparent induction of available light. Drawings on 2 ¼- inch black and white negatives, mounted on stainless steel armatures, are also included in the exhibition.

Chalkline marking instruments are tools used to establish long, straight layout lines in engineering and construction. Gathered from traditional use by unknown carpenters and engineers, the found chalkline vessels utilized in the filter drawings are re-filled with hand-ground pigments and re- strung with cords of various thicknesses. The release of the snapped chalk line leaves an electrostatic impression of powdered pigment on the sensitive surface of the light filter that is indelible, though the drawings are fragile, as any work on paper remains.

Gutters, formed with the bottom edge of the filter, collect the deposit of residual color dust falling below each snap, allowing the accumulation of a shoal of pure pigment, extending the drawing in time. The exposure of the filter surface to the action of drawing is limited to an unmasked spectral corridor of white, pthalo blue, orange and cobalt blue chalkline marks.

Ishan Clemenco began his career as a composer. Private composition
residencies with Lou Harrison and poetics studies with Anne Waldman at
Naropa Institute led to extensive Asian travels. He has exhibited extensively
in San Francisco and in Europe. His work has been exhibited at the San
Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts,
SFMoMA Artists Gallery, smART (Münich, Germany) and, more
recently, at [ 2nd floor projects ]. A limited-edition, 10-inch vinyl E.P. is
being released in conjunction with the exhibition.

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