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23 Chunks of Being Exhibition @ Greensboro Project Space
October 12, 2022 - October 22, 2022
Exhibition on View
When: October 11th- October 22nd, 2022
Closing Reception: October 21st 6:00pm-8:00pm
Where: Greensboro Project Space (111 E February One Place)
Gallery Hours: Tuesdays-Fridays, 12-5pm; Saturdays, 2-5pm
Solo Show, Featuring: Greg Grieve
23 Chunks of Being – A Retrospective
The Dungeon Master ofMeanings
As a major contributor to the emerging study of religion andvideo games, Gregory Price Grieve, Head of the Religious Studies Department atThe University of North Carolina at Greensboro, researches and teaches Asianreligions and popular culture. His retrospective of photo-collages, paintings,sculptures, videos, and installations spans almost forty years, with many showntogether for the first time. His artistic expression explores the ideasconnecting his research interests without having to resort to the fixedmeanings required in academic language.
Grieve uses collage, assemblage, montage, andinstallation–techniques originally employed by the early 20thcentury avant-guard movements. The Dadaists, Surrealists, and earlyConceptualists reinvented the role of artist with strategies to battle ossifiedinstitutions. Their materials and techniques could satirize social conventions,undermine the certainty of rationality, or embody the sensory and informationaloverload that was part of modernization. Similarly, Grieve uses found photographic images, many from the Library of Congress,and found objects, combining them to create apersonal language. Their layering,superimposition, transparency, and montage unify his source materials with a new logic. The resulting aestheticis one of free-associative flows, lucid dreaming, and humor with titles thatplay with etymology, imply conceptual readings, or make cross-disciplinaryreferences to add an additional layer of interpretation.
In this electric moment, as thephysical atomizes into data and perception into pixels, Grieve’s retrospective isnot just a collection of objects. It’s an archive of a life understanding itself. The artist becomesa dungeon master, the viewer a willing player, andthe artworks in ’23 Chunks of Being’ componentsin a game of embracing the groundlessness we navigate.
(Ryan Hill, Professor and Directorof Sculpture Tucson)
