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All Clowns Are Broken is an exhibition of still life oil paintings by Beau white.
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Opening reception: Saturday, Apr 26th, 5 - 8 pm. Drinks will be provided by our friends at Stomping Ground Brewing Co., Fin Wines and Cré Wines.
This exhibition will run from April 28th to May 18th and will coincide with Vorja Sánchez's Organic Harmony, Jon Ching's Entropic Entrapment and Selene Mauri Cochrane's VERTU.
The series features second-hand ceramic clowns that White collected and then dropped on the ground, smashed with a hammer, crushed with pliers or looked at the wrong way. With little control over the breakage, the images were created by chance, broken in ways that could not be creatively controlled. In the chaos of the process, White was forced to adapt, constructing the final images with whatever broken pieces were left. The violence of the breakage is countered by the absurd, whimsical nature of the objects placed within.
White uses the ceramic clown to represent the impermanence of the familiar. How a fragile shell of reality, both social and personal, can quickly shift to reveal the unexpected. The series explores the negative space after the breakage, a vacuum is created, and a new form emerges: beautiful, visceral, and wondrous.
Beau White is an Australian hyperrealist and figurative oil painter known for his uncanny yet comical explorations of the human condition. Obsessively detailed, his work distorts reality by blending everyday settings with nightmarish and absurd elements, challenging perceptions of beauty, horror, and the uncanny. Influenced by surrealism and satire, White meticulously crafts his imagery to provoke both fascination and discomfort.