Currently on view at Overduin & Co., Los Angeles is “Lies Inside,” a solo exhibition by Math Bass featuring sculpture, painting, performance, and video. Bass’s new paintings titled “Newz!” employ a language of shapes and characters drawn from the stylized abstraction of sign painting. This lexicon of forms acts as a legend of sorts for actions and movements found in Bass’s performances. Painted on raw canvas, the range of composed symbols addresses image production and consumption through a language that may suggest the viewer can “read” the painting. Bass combines immediately recognizable symbols such as fire, smoke, alligators, matchsticks, letters and abstracted symbols into shifting compositions.
Installation view. Courtesy of Overduin & Co., Los Angeles.
Installation view. Courtesy of Overduin & Co., Los Angeles.
“Lies Inside” is on view through April 19, 2014.
For more information visit Overduin & Co., Los Angeles.
