Fragmentary Dimensions: Painting & Sculpture from Chenoweth • Halligan Studios
Fragments 89, pigments, paper, epoxy, roofing felt on wood panel courtesy of Anvil Arts Studio
April 22nd, 2021 - October 2nd, 2022 | Atwell
Jan Chenoweth and Roger Halligan work in markedly different dimensions: Chenoweth collapsing expansive forms onto a relatively two-dimensional surface and Halligan building outwards, expanding graphic compositions into three-dimensional space. Both artists pursue abstraction rigorously, manipulating familiar yet sometimes unexpected materials into novel forms and surfaces. Seen together here, their work is marked by both its differences and a subtle shared vocabulary.
Living and working in Lake City, South Carolina, Chenoweth and Halligan redeploy the detritus of our modern world — beachside garbage, caution tape, traffic cones, building materials — and create serendipitous windows into common landscapes and into their own process of making. Fragmentary Dimensions is an opportunity to look closely and discover the cunning breaches hidden within the work of these two artists where abstraction reigns but gives way to ruminations on the world we’ve built for ourselves and the aesthetic potential therein.
