Jason Kalogiros

The Measure, The Weight, The Ground, The Scale

June 12 - July 18, 2015

Calculating the calculations, as the simple mass of the object unravels,

the image, built into itself,
from point to point,
its full range carried like a song.

What is the surface, and the means by which I know it,

at its base, its core, a level foundation, the extent of it, in a language I know, recognizable and placed.

May it refer to the shift, to the act, the knowing? May it always.

CAPITAL is pleased to present The Measure, The Weight, The Ground, The Scale, a solo exhibition by Jason Kalogiros. This is the artist’s first exhibition with the gallery as well as his solo debut on the West Coast.

The works within the exhibition are a collection of unique photographs and bronzes derived from drawings made using black ink on white paper with the aid of a T-square. These drawings are not independent works themselves but instead serve as starting points for a generative process that uses photography as a bridge between drawing and sculpture.

The imagery of the grid developed throughout these works references perspective, the place representation begins, as much as it recalls the artist’s earlier photograms of fabric. Kalogiros’s current process began with his fascination with looking at photographic representations of abstract painting- which are themselves images on woven or gridded fabric. This play between the photographic representation and the objective referent has been at the heart of his practice for the past decade, tapping as much into the history of avant-garde abstraction as it does contemporary image culture.