Smeared, flattened, and tough across the edges, Gregory Euclide’s mixed-media collages discover nature by the lens of human expertise. Organically meandering outlines counsel shallow reliefs; foraged prairie botanicals complement human-made supplies; and abstracted landscapes emerge from drawings, pictures, ripped paper, paint, and extra.
“The artist tears and layers these elements to build a new pictorial space which more accurately resembles the way he takes in the land,” says a gallery assertion for Assembled Lands, Euclide’s solo exhibition opening later this week with Hashimoto Modern.
Breaking down his observations of nature into its basic components, Euclide merges overviews of timber, shrubs, meadows, and the horizon with the intimate particulars of leaves or branches. One would possibly method his material by the lens of the Anthropocene, which describes our current period of accelerating adjustments to the atmosphere on account of people’ unrelenting influence.
Every collage (beforehand) merges recognizable kinds and terrain with summary shapes and compositional spirals or whorls. The impact toys with notion and our understanding of relationships between flatness and depth, land and sky, and nature and ourselves.
Assembled Lands runs from Could 17 to June 14 in New York Metropolis. See extra on the artist’s web site.
