Uploads from Derek Lerner, tagged dereklerner

Asvirus 35

nobody@flickr.com (Derek Lerner) — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 07:08:42 -0700

Derek Lerner Asvirus 35
2012 ink on paper mounted to panel 45.72 x 30.48 cm (18 x 12 in)

Derek Lerner exhibition at RHV fine art invitation

nobody@flickr.com (Derek Lerner) — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:10:40 -0800

Derek Lerner
January 26 – February 26, 2012

RHV fine art is pleased to announce an exhibition of drawings by New York based artist Derek Lerner

Please join us for the opening reception on
Thursday, January 26 from 6-8pm.

Cocktails and after-party at Lot 2
www.lot2restaurant.com/

See more of Derek’s work »
www.rhvfineart.com/artists/derek-lerner

Derek Lerner layers countless well refined marks, lines, and shapes to create complex systems that look as if we are peering through a microscope and a telescope at the same time. After 15 years of working, this group of 10 ink on paper drawings (all 2011) constitute Lerner’s latest body of work, stemming from his contradictory feelings about urban sprawl, over-development and humanity as a virus.

As Lerner’s fictional landscapes meander across the paper, growing outward as layer upon layer is applied, they depict a co-mingling of human-made and natural systems and the tensions between those forces. The elements of each composition multiply and attach themselves to one another or consume others like fungi or suburbs encroaching on open land. He coalesces questions about how complex systems work, about parasites, pesticides and poisons, genetically modified foods, over-consumption and over-population into ironically beautiful visual metaphors that reference mapping, satellite photography, microscopic imagery, radial irrigation systems as well as signs, symbols and the random marks, scrapes and scratches found on the streets of major metropolitan areas.

Looking both biological and man-made, his lyrical compositions embody dualities that reflect Lerner’s conflicted feelings about his own role and impact on our environment,
“…while in many ways my work is a reaction to over-consumption and environmental politics, the drawings themselves are yet another “thing” added to the world, made no less with materials that are potentially damaging to the environment.” Although Lerner’s work emphasizes the destructive nature of man his work is evidence that beauty can be found in what humans make as well as what we destroy; and that it is perhaps unavoidable for humans to create without consuming at the same time.

Derek Lerner was raised in Jacksonville, FL and earned his BFA from the Atlanta College of Art in 1995. He lives in New York City and maintains his studio in Brooklyn, NY. His work has been exhibited around the world including the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, IL, Museo de la Ciudad de Mexico in Mexico City and the Centre d’Exposition de Val-d’Or in Quebec, Canada among others. This is his first exhibition with RHV Fine Art.

RHV fine art presents the compelling work of emerging and established local and national artists. We feature work that is both conceptually challenging and visually engaging, focusing on but not limited to minimal and conceptual abstraction.

RHV fine art
683 6th Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11215

Hours:
Thursday through Sunday
2pm – 7pm
and by appointment

Directions: R train to Prospect Ave. or F and G trains to 7th Ave.

For more information, please contact:
Henry Chung or Robert Walden
(718) 473-0819 or visit www.rhvfineart.com/

2012 Derek Lerner exhibition at RHV Fine Art 02

nobody@flickr.com (Derek Lerner) — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 08:21:30 -0800

Derek Lerner posted a photo:

An exhibition of drawings by New York based artist Derek Lerner
January 26 – February 26, 2012

RHV fine art
683 6th Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11215

Derek-Lerner.com
www.rhvfineart.com/

2012 Derek Lerner exhibition at RHV Fine Art 03

nobody@flickr.com (Derek Lerner) — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 08:21:36 -0800

Derek Lerner posted a photo:

An exhibition of drawings by New York based artist Derek Lerner
January 26 – February 26, 2012

RHV fine art
683 6th Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11215

Derek-Lerner.com
www.rhvfineart.com/

2012 Derek Lerner exhibition at RHV Fine Art 01

nobody@flickr.com (Derek Lerner) — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 08:21:23 -0800

Derek Lerner posted a photo:

An exhibition of drawings by New York based artist Derek Lerner
January 26 – February 26, 2012

RHV fine art
683 6th Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11215

Derek-Lerner.com
www.rhvfineart.com/

2012 Derek Lerner exhibition at RHV Fine Art 04

nobody@flickr.com (Derek Lerner) — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 08:21:43 -0800

Derek Lerner posted a photo:

An exhibition of drawings by New York based artist Derek Lerner
January 26 – February 26, 2012

RHV fine art
683 6th Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11215

Derek-Lerner.com
www.rhvfineart.com/

Asvirus 18

nobody@flickr.com (Derek Lerner) — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 11:51:20 -0700

Derek Lerner posted a photo:

Derek Lerner Asvirus 18
2011 Ink, enamel and gesso on paper mounted to panel 45.72 x 30.48 cm (18 x 12 in)

Asvirus 17

nobody@flickr.com (Derek Lerner) — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 11:50:52 -0700

Derek Lerner posted a photo:

Derek Lerner Asvirus 17
2011 Ink, enamel and gesso on paper mounted to panel 45.72 x 30.48 cm (18 x 12 in)

Asvirus 16

nobody@flickr.com (Derek Lerner) — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 11:50:13 -0700

Derek Lerner posted a photo:

Derek Lerner Asvirus 16
2011 Ink and gesso on paper mounted to panel 45.72 x 30.48 cm (18 x 12 in)

Asvirus 13

nobody@flickr.com (Derek Lerner) — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 11:48:16 -0700

Derek Lerner posted a photo:

Derek Lerner Asvirus 13
2011 Ink and gesso on paper mounted to panel 45.72 x 30.48 cm (18 x 12 in)

Asvirus 12

nobody@flickr.com (Derek Lerner) — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 11:47:46 -0700

Derek Lerner posted a photo:

Derek Lerner Asvirus 12
2011 Ink and gesso on paper mounted to panel 35.56 x 27.94 cm (14 x 11 in)

Asvirus 9

nobody@flickr.com (Derek Lerner) — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 11:46:12 -0700

Derek Lerner posted a photo:

Derek Lerner Asvirus 9
2011 Ink and gesso on paper mounted to panel 35.56 x 27.94 cm (14 x 11 in)

Asvirus 11

nobody@flickr.com (Derek Lerner) — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 11:47:09 -0700

Derek Lerner posted a photo:

Derek Lerner Asvirus 11
2011 Ink, enamel, correction tape and gesso on paper mounted to panel 35.56 x 27.94 cm (14 x 11 in)

Asvirus 14

nobody@flickr.com (Derek Lerner) — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 11:49:21 -0700

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Derek Lerner Asvirus 14
2011 Ink and gesso on paper mounted to panel 45.72 x 30.48 cm (18 x 12 in)

Asvirus 15

nobody@flickr.com (Derek Lerner) — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 11:49:47 -0700

Derek Lerner posted a photo:

Derek Lerner Asvirus 15
2011 Ink and gesso on paper mounted to panel 45.72 x 30.48 cm (18 x 12 in)

Asvirus 10

nobody@flickr.com (Derek Lerner) — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 11:46:41 -0700

Derek Lerner posted a photo:

Derek Lerner Asvirus 10
2011 Ink and gesso on paper mounted to panel 35.56 x 27.94 cm (14 x 11 in)

Glacial Retreat 10

nobody@flickr.com (Derek Lerner) — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 11:10:42 -0800

Derek Lerner posted a photo:

Derek Lerner Glacial Retreat 10
2010 Ink on paper 25.4 x 21.2725 cm (10 x 8.375 in)

Glacial Retreat 14

nobody@flickr.com (Derek Lerner) — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 11:13:44 -0800

Derek Lerner posted a photo:

Derek Lerner Glacial Retreat 14
2010 Ink on paper 25.4 x 21.2725 cm (10 x 8.375 in)

Recycled Spacetime

nobody@flickr.com (Derek Lerner) — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 08:02:53 -0700

Derek Lerner posted a photo:

Derek Lerner, Recycled Spacetime 2010 Multimedia

The first piece I have created for this "space" entitled Recycled Spacetime is a sound based artwork. Using a camera-phone "viewers" can take a photograph of the QR Code and then using a reader application such as Barcodes for the iPhone the QR Code resolves to a webpage with instructions on how to interact with the work. To listen to and interact with the piece "viewers" can call a Google Voice phone number to listen to mixed/layered field recordings comprised from all of the locations where the QR Codes have been installed. After listening to the current piece they are able to leave their own recording which will then be mixed into the piece. Over time the sound will become compressed into a chaotic aural documentation of time and space.

Glacial Retreat 8

nobody@flickr.com (Derek Lerner) — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 10:20:41 -0700

Derek Lerner posted a photo:

Derek Lerner Glacial Retreat 8
2010 Ink on paper 25.4 x 21.2725 cm (10 x 8.375 in)