did a show like a weeeek ago. (duh!) thanx to all you dudes who came out ;)
“Youth’s Truth”
The New Artwork of Brandon Gay
Curated by Thomas Woodward
Honeytree Gallery
504 E. 18th St, Unit 102, Kansas City, Missouri
www.honeytreegallery.com
Open Friday, September 10th, 7-9 p.m.
As time passes, we change. Mirroring the progression of time is our advancing technology, impacting and changing the way we live on a daily basis. While we have the generations that preceded us to learn from, the newness of the world at times nullifies the lessons we are able to learn from our elders. This newness leaves us alone to face previously non-existent experiences as a consequence. But we still live and there are still constants. In a package deal with life is death. No matter what medical advances transpire or how fast the internet on you’re phone becomes it seems we will share the same end, one by one, that all generations previous have faced. We will all die. There is no doubt that the perception of death has changed with each generation. Beliefs differ just as the environments we age in do.
Today’s youth is a product of the times that searches for it’s own truth.
Brandon Gay comes from a generation of artists that know the internet like a member of their family. He uses it to pull influence from a wide variety of sources outside of Kansas City, listing Tereza Zelenkova, the graffiti of WWL, Sam Moyer, and David Hammons as current influences. Perhaps the most lasting influence to the development of Gay as an artist comes from his former teacher, Jessica Manco, who helped lay his artistic foundation on which all his current work is able to stand. Working fluently in a variety of techniques and mediums, Gay seems as at home with collage as he is photography and illustration. His work is often displayed in bunches meant to draw parallels between pieces and subject matter. Gay mixes in found objects and images that further help influence the perception of the viewer. His work is as much about the individual pieces as it is the overall installation, with each piece acting as a single sentence or paragraph in the story he is telling.
