Beacon

We are pleased to present a group exhibit titled BEACON in our G1 space at Gauntlet Gallery. We have hand selected thirty of our favorite artists to create new work with the loose guideline of the word BEACON to steer them in their creative process. In doing so, each artists has created a unique vision through their work that exemplifies hope, warning, celebration, and guidance. Artists include Aaron Nagel, Adam Ziskie, Alec Huxley, Alex Garant, Bec Winnel, Bennett Slater, Bri Cirel, Chris Curtis, Daniel Segrove, David Cooley, Emilio Villalba, Famous When Dead, Graham Curran, Hilary White, Hollis Brown Thornton, Ian Reynold, Jason Thielke, Johannah O’Donnell, Kieran Collins, Lie, Martine Johanna, Matthew Grabelsky, Michael McConnell, Rebecca Adams, Sean Norvet, Syd Bee, Tom Bagshaw, & Trey Barnett.

We are pleased to present a solo exhibition by William Arvin. Since Gauntlet opened in 2012, Arvin has been a staple artist at the gallery. With his his trademark lo-fi brush stroke and use of text on images, Arvin focuses on social upheaval, cinematic escape and the authority of advertisement. In his new series of work Arvin examines how the language of cinema is one that is universally understood, culturally pervasive and deeply ingrained in the Western psyche. Elements such as lighting, props, wardrobe, cropping, camera angles, and title fonts, inform the viewer of a narrative in ways that dialogue and the written word could never achieve. Using his own photography, designing and creating his own costume and wardrobe and establishing his own, somewhat original though heavily informed narrative content allows William an opportunity to replicate film without relying on appropriated material and pre-existing film stills. With a single image and text which summons this universal language, he aims to create paintings that steer the viewer’s mind in a narrative direction that evokes the familiar concepts and archetypes of classic and contemporary cinema. In doing so, he encapsulates the fleeting nature of cinematic experience in a single, immutable object.