David Fulton In and Of, New Work Artist’s Reception September 10, 6:00-8:00 Opening Saturday, September 10, 2005 David Fulton, a conceptual objectifier, creates ambiguous striking images reconstructed from diverse, common, everyday sources and his process de-sentimentalizes these objects by releasing them from their histories and usefulness thus allowing them to exist in their own aesthetic and spirit-infused realm. The work is the record of the effort to reformulate cartographic facts. This is an attempt to re-present the experience of walking through the world using the graphic relics meant to guide the walking through the world- borders, roadways, rivers, the shapes of territories, of lakes, shorelines, - re-applied, resulting in a complexity, a richness, a more accurate map. “Fulton’s approach to paint and painting is focused more conceptually than romantically. Fulton snakes loose, fluid lines of watery acrylic over black and gray grounds. They build up and overlap, creating dense networks. The paint is whitest and densest at the edges of Fulton’s forms. The resulting works look like electron micrographs of intricate cellular structures.” Kelly Klaasmeyer The artist states: “The Shoreline Strata works re-map the contours of a pre-selected set of lakes, cutting and re-assembling the lake, and pairing one re-configured shoreline with another. This pattern is then traced onto one of a variety of materials and layered, complicating identity, referencing the accumulation of events, a reading of a geological history, an unfolding limited by the frame of the container, the edge of the world, and veiled by the frozen surface of the new whole. The Lake works trace the contours of a pre-selected set of lakes, locating the shorelines with white paint on a black surface. Layered, the information simultaneously re-presented and complicated by the application of the thinned watery white. The shoreline retains only the inner identity, the paint flows away from the origin, recombining and obscuring previous layers, forming shared territories, the new soft edges hinting at a non-existent three dimensional referent, the new visual whole alluding to different elements, the organic, the construction of history, the compressed post-travel experience.” The title of the exhibition is In and Of, New Work and runs from September 10- October 15 with an artist’s reception Saturday September 10, 6-8 pm