‘memory echoes’

A duo exhibition with Andrew Orloski at Lorin Gallery LA

25th March 2023 - 22nd April 2023

Garrison’s paintings investigate the versatile forms of remembering in a completely digital age will bring the discussion to a non-materialized realm. Born at the inception of millennials, Garisson belongs to a generation whose ontology and experience, ways of memorizing and recording are significantly different from the artists before him. Technologically mimicking the visual features of digital image and digital re-touching, Garisson aims at delineating a representation of the scattered, fragmented, blurred and distorted form of memory under the influence of digital intrusion.

Sharing the space with Garrison’s paintings of nostalgia, Orloski’s sculptural practice of the past four years challenges the rigid, seamless pairing between materials and objects. Through a sculptural process of molding materials into the unexpected, unmatching forms of daily objects, and via recomposing disposable things with enduring materials, Orloski casts an existential inquiry into material, substance, and the objective form. Oftentimes, his work bends materials into self- contradiction and self-reflection. At the center of each sculptural work, there is an aesthetic tension between the physical properties of used material and the aesthetic tendency, the contextual and utilitarian expectation associated with an object.

This presentation will bring together the highly conceptual sculpture works by Orloski and the mix-media, airbrush-heavy paintings by Garisson, forming a flowing conversation around temporal erosion and material memory. Orloski’s sculptures which layer the contemporary iconology with archaic, solemn materials like stone, cast-iron and glass, will work face to face with the genre-bending paintings by Garisson, a prophet artist of the new syntax for digital images, to resituate memory in the middle ground of ephemeral and permanence.