Autumn Color

Opening Reception: Friday, November 7th, 5-8pm

November 7th - December 20th, 2025

A group Show Featuring:

ANDREA BELAG, Arthur Osver, Richmond Burton, David Row, Peter Demos, Robert Sagerman, Jerald Ieans, Erik Spehn, Valerie Jaudon, Robert Swain, Eva Lundsager, Barbara Takenaga, Tim McFarlane, John Zinsser

GREG EDMONDSON

SELECTED WORKS FROM THE EIGHTIEs

EXHIBITION STATEMENT

The 1980s were a decade of contradiction. Andy Warhol was the most famous artist in America - and Ronald Reagan was the president. How both of those things were true still baffles me. My own experience was also built on contradiction. I earned my MFA from Washington University in 1985 and left immediately for a DAAD fellowship to Cologne, Germany and a Fulbright fellowship to Munich. From 1985 to 1990 I bounced between major cities in Europe, and a remote cabin in rural Tennessee. These two realities could hardly be more different, but time spent in each informed work made in the other. I was working with materials that were readily available. In Tennessee I was surrounded by wood (and had used a chainsaw since I was 9 or 10). I began carving, but the ideas I explored were based on my experience as a traveller and a “foreigner”. Home felt like a question. Was it where I came from, where I was going? Was it a place, a person or just an imaginary concept? I’m not certain I’ve ever settled on an answer. The pieces in this exhibition were made by a young man who was hopelessly naive. A hick from the sticks with an expensive education, and the opportunity to live a life I’d only dreamed of. I was selling work to Elton John and Halle Berry. My intention was to make work as honestly as I could, and I hope that still comes across.