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We love Geary’s pieces as they explore movement and a wide range of color. Each section of the canvas has a special and interesting moment to offer, almost as if each square inch could be its own individual painting. Geary’s pieces balance between the realm of what seems familiar and a surrealist dreamscape. Geary’s work often explores a mix of organic shapes and vibrant color palettes.
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The body of work presented in Hidden Entrance continues the artist’s long term exploration of secret structures, unseen truths, and manufactured illusions. Geary uses experimentation in medium and self imposed rules while creating the work as a means to question how our preconceived notions of reality block our ability to see what is possible. The psychonautic searching for resolve within his creative process draws parallels to larger questions, and Geary uses this process as a form of meditative exploration.
How do our conceptions of the laws that dictate nature, and of beings that intentionally manipulate our reality displace our vision? What is hidden to us and how do we access a deeper understanding of our perception of our lived experience?
Mike's current body of work at Anchorlight, Hidden Entrance, is a collection of paintings and sculpture that continue his ongoing exploration of secret structures, unseen truths, and manufactured illusions.
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For July and August, Flanders and Lump work together to host Joe Grillo and Mike Geary in a collaborative residency with pop up performances, a group exhibition curated by Grillo and Geary, and a two person exhibit in August presenting the works created during residency.
“Mining a kind of throwaway culture of 99-Cent stores, the ubiquitous thrift shops of his home town of Virginia Beach, with their long-forgotten cartoon characters or cereal box mascots, broken toys or instruments, crazy fabrics or discarded lamps, Joe Grillo generates a constant flow of remixed and regurgitated visual information of hybrid pop nonsense that when organized and presented in his artworks and shows, stops seeming random and starts speaking meaningfully to an audience that can synthesize the amount of cultural information he does, and who looks as closely at fine art concerns as he does. It is safe to say that he has achieved “cult status” as an artist, and his work is extremely influential. Grillo was a founding member of Paper Rad and Dearraindrop. (The Hole NYC)
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“Hyperstition,” the latest exhibition from Boone native, Mike Geary, opened at Lump Gallery on April 9 and continues through May 15.
“Anything that removes the crippling nature of decision making, I’m a big fan of,” says Team Lump bad boy, Mike Geary according to the Lump website. The title of his show refers to the experimental science of self-fulfilling prophecies. As opposed to a superstition, which is simply a belief paired with magical thinking, a hyperstition functions to manifest its own reality through specific methods. Geary’s personal hyperstition employs the generative techniques he uses to create improvised, modular music; he allows the machine and the method take over as a kind of low brow, artificial intelligence that manifests its own reality.