Tracey Morgan Gallery
August 9 - September 21, 2024
Randy Shull: Black & White is on view at Tracey Morgan Gallery through September 21, 2024.
Shull has the unique ability to evoke both gravity and weightlessness within a single artwork, pouring thick layers of paint around the loose weave of handmade hammocks, a material that he has been incorporating in his work for several years. Hammocks are core to life in the Yucatán peninsula of Mexico where Shull has lived part-time for the past 18 years, and where he maintains a studio in the historic center of Mérida. If art and hammocks are the vehicles of dreams, Shull’s work carves a path into the subconscious.
As objects, hammocks are extremely strong and malleable, with a rich cultural history. Shull at once honors this craft and lineage while treating it irreverently, exploring the boundaries of what a painting can be with tireless experimentation. In these heavily textured almost muscular works, Shull subverts the very notion of a painting, reversing the usual roll of canvas and paint. Using paint as a binder to hold the hammocks together, he creates a radical new material that is culled from the histories of art and craft while decidedly pointing towards their futures.
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Tracey Morgan Gallery
22 London Road
Asheville, NC 28803
Shull is featured in HEMPHILL's current exhibition, BELKIN · CALDWELL · SHULL, on view through August 24, 2024.