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RIVES GRANADE

DREAM BIRD BEYOND SOUND, BEYOND TIME

AUGUST 24 – OCTOBER 19

There are, indeed, things that cannot be put into words. They make themselves manifest. They are what is mystical. -Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922)

Ochi Gallery is pleased to present Dream Bird Beyond Sound, Beyond Time, a solo exhibition featuring works by Los Angeles based artist Rives Granade.

This body of work continues Granade’s exploration into the mutability of forms with color being a dominating interest. Radiating energy from the canvas, Granade achieves his saturated hues by using acrylic gouache as a primary medium. Shifting away from the artist’s usual oil paint, the gouache allows for a more immediate kind of mark making; the colors being matte and intense, leaving a surface almost fragile in its sheen.

This work marks a departure in Granade's use of computer based or found imagery. While all of the paintings contain snippets of recognizable forms, they are for the most part done in an automatic way. Employing the basic formula for ab ex painting whereby one makes a mark and then responds to it, Granade’s gestures might be more of a shape or a drawing than a mere brushstroke, but they do acknowledge a consistent desire to combine hard edged abstraction with gestural existentialism. In many ways they look back to the first modern abstract paintings and the short-lived movement of Orphism.

Though generally abstract, as these works developed, Granade noticed that birds or bird-like forms kept emerging. The birds are not always recognizable as birds, and some in fact aren't birds at certain points. Ever exploring the edge between abstraction and figuration, they hover, as all of this work is meant to, in an in-between space where meaning is not fixed and can be configured in many ways.

Rives Granade earned a BA in philosophy from Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA (2002), and an MFA from The San Francisco Art Institute (2008). The artist has recently shown work at Ochi Projects, Los Angeles, M+B Gallery, Los Angeles, Harmony Murphy Gallery, Los Angeles, Gallery Lara, Tokyo, Japan, The Underground Museum, Los Angeles, and Marine Projects, Venice, CA.

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Ayia, 2018 acrylic gouache on canvas

60 x 72 inches

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Zoser Room, 2018 acrylic gouache on canvas

60 x 72 inches

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Shrimp Whiskers, 2019 acrylic gouache on canvas

60 x 72 inches

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Psychro Sanctuary, 2018 oil and acrylic on canvas

96 x 57 inches (orientation interchangeable)

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Dropsicle, 2019 acrylic gouache, acrylic, and oil on canvas

60 x 48 inches

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Teat’s Tears, 2018 acrylic gouache, acrylic, and oil on canvas

60 x 48 inches

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Light Souls in Heavy Bodies, 2019 acrylic gouache and acrylic on canvas

60 x 48 inches

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Hoof Mud, 2019 acrylic gouache, acrylic, and oil on canvas

60 x 48 inches

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Distant Rooster, 2019 acrylic gouache, acrylic, and oil on canvas

60 x 48 inches

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Blind Skies, 2019 acrylic gouache and acrylic on canvas

60 x 48 inches

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Slytherin, 2019 acrylic gouache on canvas

36 x 24 inches

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Visionary Painting, 2019 acrylic gouache and colored pencil on canvas

36 x 24 inches

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Jubjub Bird, 2014, 2019 uv ink, acrylic, and acrylic gouache on polyester silk over panel

21 x 16 inches

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Destiny's Porpoise, 2014, 2019 uv ink, acrylic, and acrylic gouache on polyester silk over panel

21 x 16 inches

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Sunscreen Eyes of Flame, 2014, 2019 uv ink, acrylic, and acrylic gouache on polyester silk over panel

21 x 16 inches

Bennu I.I, 2018Powder coated steel, wood, enamel, hardware

60 x 48 x 26.5 inches

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Bennu II.I, 2018Powder coated steel, wood, enamel, hardware

70 x 37 x 28 inches

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RIVES GRANADE

born Mobile, AL

Solo and Two Person Exhibitions

2018 Rainbows Inhale, Ochi Projects, Los Angeles, CA

2015 Red Poem, Ochi Projects, Los Angeles, CA

2011 Mancave, Duncan Miller Project Space, Santa Monica, CA Special Feature, Marine Contemporary Salon, Venice, CA

2010 Love Force, Steven Wolf Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA

Group Exhibitions

2016 Please Have Enough Acid in the Dish, M+B, Los Angeles, CA curated by Vinny Dotolo Flat Foldability, Harmony Murphy Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2014 Here There Be Tigers, Gallery Lara, Tokyo, Japan curated by Kio Griffith My Self Is Another, Underground Museum, Los Angeles, CA Salon No. 9, Marine Contemporary Salon, Venice, CA

2012 Coming Together, Fabien Fryns Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA

2011 Metallic, PØST, Pasadena, CA curated by Daniel Aksten Chain Letter, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Brann, Kino Kino Centre for Art and Film, Sandnes, Norway

2010 Boom, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA

2009 19th Nervous Breakdown, Norte Maar, Brooklyn, NY curated by Elliot Lessing Salon no. 2, Marine Contemporary, Venice, CA

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2008 Steven Wolf Fine Arts at Aqua Art Miami, Aqua Hotel, Miami, FL Valuemax, Seven Wolf Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA Face Value, Work Sound, Portland, OR Vague, Joyous, Screams, SFAI MFA Thesis Exhibition, Herbst Pavilion at Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA Post-Boomers and the New South, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL Wilderness, Swell Gallery, San Francisco, CA curated by Ben Echeveria Athens Video Art Festival, Technopolis, Athens, Greece 2007 Fun Time, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA Bay Area Artists Contemplate the African Diaspora, SF Arts Gallery and SF Public Library, San Francisco, CA Presence and Pretense, Swell Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2006 Southeastern Juried Exhibition, Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL Migration, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco, CA Contemplating Inappropriateness, Crucible Steel Gallery, San Francisco, CA curated by Andrew Rottner Figure Head - Figure Caster, Catchi Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA