THE DREAMETTE :: John Orth
10.14.17
Project Space
John Orth’s work offers the urgency of human gesture against a backdrop of inevitable evanescence and mystery. His sculptural work fuses organic and inorganic materials to create a hybridized world of sensuous artifice, in which the bright orange of a tangerine and an extension cord share a complex root system. These pieces invite the viewer to imagine squeezing, smelling, stroking them, yet they maintain the formal reserve of the catalogued and preserved. A shared visual language ripples across the surface of all participants, human and otherwise, as evidence of this exchange.
About the Artist: Orth is an artist and musician living and working in New York City. He recently received an MFA in sculpture at Virginia Commonwealth University. He was a fellow at Mildred’s Lane (PA), Wayfarer’s (NY) and SOMA (CDMX). He is a recent recipient of The Dedalus Foundation grant for outstanding MFA students. John is a founding member of the band Holopaw who released two recordings on Sub Pop Records. He is also a contributing member of Isaac Brock’s solo project, Ugly Casanova. He was co-founder of F.L.A. Gallery in Gainesville, Florida in 2012. His artistic pursuits have included collaborations with experimental filmmakers Roger Beebe, Alan Calpe, and Adam Baran. He is represented by Cinders Gallery in New York.
