The Christopher Grimes Gallery is pleased to present the speed and eagerness of meaning, an exhibition of new works by San Francisco based artist Richard T. Walker. This exhibition will include a 3 screen video installation in the main gallery space with related photo-based works in the south gallery that form a continuation of an ongoing investigation into the interweaving relationships between nature, culture and perception.
the speed and eagerness of meaning plays with notions of spatial transition, emphasizing the physicality of distance in both real and emotional terms; highlighting the particularities of perception and the fragility of a linear-based understanding of reality. The tension between the undeniable reality of the beauty and awe inspired in such landscapes and our internal inability to translate such experience into a genuinely comparable response form the basis for the underpinnings of this work.
Such temporal shifts are reconciled through the pace and stability of a linear narration that will be accompanied by music written and recorded by the artist. Multiple instruments played by the protagonist in the landscapes will congregate together to form a fluid, multi-layered musical response to a situation whereby reality contends with a fantastical understanding of space.
Richard T. Walker received his MFA from Goldsmith College in 2005. He has exhibited at institutions such as the Temporare Kunsthalle, Berlin; La Galerie Contemporary Art Centre, Noisy-le-Sec, Paris; De Appel, Amsterdam; and the Kunsthalle Luzern, Switzerland and LAXART, Los Angeles. Currently, his work is included in the group exhibition Embodying at the Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center. Walker will also be included in the forthcoming exhibition, Big Picture, at K21 in Düsseldorf
