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Math Bass

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gouache on canvasVarious Small Fires
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This minimalist artwork presents a striking contrast of black and white shapes against a neutral beige background. The composition features a dynamic interplay of bold, abstracted floral forms, with large, rounded black petals surrounding white circular centers. The artist employs a simplified, graphic style, using clean lines and geometric shapes to create a sense of balance and symmetry. The overall effect is both visually striking and conceptually intriguing, inviting the viewer to contemplate the relationship between positive and negative space, as well as the essential elements of floral imagery. This work exemplifies the artist's distinctive approach to reductive abstraction and their exploration of the boundaries between representation and pure form. ...

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Math Bass
Artist
Math Bass
B.1981, American

Operating in a dreamy space between surrealism and figuration, Math Bass has developed a distinct visual lexicon in their paintings. Graphic symbols or seemingly random objects such as fried eggs, bones, flowers, letters, and clouds are brought together in supremely flat registers that resurface and reshape in different paintings. The elongated legs, illustrative architectural fragments and bold calligraphy all could have been plucked from an Art Deco poster of the 1920s. The overlaps and unsettling juxtapositions that Bass develops creates narratives for audiences to unravel. The bewildering, somewhat uneasy tone of these oil paintings leaves space for Bass to meditate on their queerness through the language of the everyday, riffing off of personal experiences of navigating everyday environments in heteronormative society. Negative space is a particularly important ingredient within Bass’s compositions. Building on lessons learnt from their tutor Barbara Kruger, Bass values the anchoring presence of negative space, using it as a tool to aid coherence and clarity within each painting’s composition. ...

Math Bass: Artworks
Serpentine Door
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Serpentine Door, 2017
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Newz!
Math Bass
Newz!, 2018
91.8 x 84.1cm
Newz!
Math Bass
Newz!, 2019
106.68 x 111.76cm
Newz!
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Newz!, 2019
81.28 x 86.36cm
crocodile eyes
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crocodile eyes, 2021
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Swamp
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Swamp, 2020
50.8 x 76.2cm
Pink Clouds I
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Pink Clouds I, 2021
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New Teeth
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New Teeth, 2022
101.6 x 96.5cm
Various Small Fires
Gallery
Various Small Fires
Los Angeles, Seoul, Dallas

Various Small Fires (Los Angeles /Dallas /Seoul) began as a series of conversations with artists and curators in Esther Kim Varet’s Venice Beach kitchen while working on her doctoral dissertation. VSF debuted in Hollywood as an official gallery in 2015 with a roster of artists and its current Johnston MarkLee Architects-designed building. The Hollywood gallery contains three exhibition spaces, a unique sound corridor, and an outdoor gallery. VSF’s exhibition program explores several curatorial lines: climate, equality, and an international conversation. The gallery is known for offering artists debut shows, creating intergenerational conversations among the artists on its roster, and solidifying artists’ legacies within art history. In 2019, VSF opened a second location in the Hannam neighbourhood of Seoul, South Korea, followed recently this Spring by VSFs third outpost in Dallas, Texas. While Varet has very personal connections to both locations, they are also superlative art communities. These expansions emphasise the gallery’s commitment to innovation and global dialogue in the twenty-first century. In 2021, VSF became a member of the Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA). ...

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