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Will Stewart and Evan Whale, 321 Gallery, Swab Barcelona

Evan Whale, PS 2 (Angeles Forest, S. San Andreas), 2018, Carving and Chemigram on C-Print, Static Mount, Museum Glass, Maple Frame, 21 x 17 Inches, 321 Gallery, Swab Barcelona

Will Stewart and Evan Whale, 321 Gallery, Swab Barcelona

Will Stewart, Proposition 2 (AM), 2018, Wood, Wax, Dyed Canvas, Bucket, Stainless Steel, Lamp Cord, 24 x 34 x 32 Inches, 321 Gallery, Swab Barcelona

Will Stewart, Proposition 1, 2018, Wood, Wax, 32 x 20 Inches, 321 Gallery, Swab Barcelona

Evan Whale, PS 1 (Angeles Forest, S. San Andreas), 2018, Carving and Chemigram on C-Print, Static Mount, Museum Glass, Maple Frame, 21 x 17 Inches, 321 Gallery, Swab Barcelona

Will Stewart and Evan Whale, 321 Gallery, Swab Barcelona

Evan Whale, PS 3 (Angeles Forest, S. San Andreas), 2018, Carving and Chemigram on C-Print, Static Mount, Museum Glass, Maple Frame, 21 x 17 Inches, 321 Gallery, Swab Barcelona

Evan Whale, Cibacreature (Wary), 2015, Carving on dye destruction print, 10 x 8 Inches, 321 Gallery, Swab Barcelona

Evan Whale, Cibacreature (Nudgy), 2015, Carving on dye destruction print, 10 x 8 Inches, 321 Gallery, Swab Barcelona

Will Stewart and Evan Whale, 321 Gallery, Swab Barcelona

WILL STEWART AND EVAN WHALE
SWAB BARCELONA ART FAIR
THE DESERT AND THE CACTUS
BOOTH DC1
SEPTEMBER 27-SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

For the 2018 edition of the Swab Barcelona Art Fair, 321 Gallery will be exhibiting a two-person booth featuring the work of Will Stewart and Evan Whale.

Navigating areas around their respective urban settings, both Stewart and Whale collect organic and industrial waste, using found material to create unique works addressing environmental aesthetics and natural disasters such as earthquakes (also known as The Big One in California). Working between digital and analogue photographic platforms, Whale explores the intersections of socio-political histories, environmental change, and photographic representation in the 21st century. His unique chromogenic prints layer fallen palm fronds with patterns derived from earthquake seismograms, scratched onto the photographic surface by his hand in the dark. Drawing from the aesthetics of interior spaces, Stewart creates distinct and efficient environments out of found materials that he resourcefully assembles anew. Carpet insulation, salvaged oakwood barrels, plastic buckets, and marble countertops become handmade furniture and light fixtures. Conflating environmental aesthetics with those of interior design, Stewart’s installations express a totality of relationships between spaces, bodies, and objects. Each new environment ultimately reorients architectural space, shifting its energy and that of the objects within.

Will Stewart (b. 1984, CA) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Recent solo and two-person exhibitions include A late lunch at the Paradise of Silence Cafe at 321 Gallery (Brooklyn, NY); It’s nice to know the things you lost were real at Clima Gallery (Milan, IT, 2017), Toulette, John at Kodomo Gallery (Brooklyn, NY, 2016), and cats young boy stoned at US Blues (Brooklyn, NY, 2015). Stewart was an artist in residence at The Shandaken Project (Storm King, NY, 2015), and he founded and runs ZAX Restaurant (Brooklyn, NY). Stewart holds a degree in mathematics and studied at the University of Colorado and the Independent University of Moscow.

Evan Whale (b. 1987, Washington DC) lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Solo exhibitions include Come and See (Actual Size, Los Angeles, CA); i heard, as it were, the noise of thunder (321 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY); Color Space (Trinity College, Hartford, CT); and Dye Transfers (Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY). His work has been shown in select group exhibitions at Regan Projects (Los Angeles, CA); Jeff Bailey Gallery (Hudson, NY); The FLAG Art Foundation (New York, NY); Galerie Thaddeaus Ropac (Paris, FR and Salzburg, AT); Diane Rosenstein Fine Arts (Los Angeles, CA); 321 Gallery (Brooklyn); Signal Gallery (Brooklyn); and Shoshana Wayne Gallery (Santa Monica, CA). He graduated with a BA in photography from Bard College (2009) and received his MFA from the Yale School of Art (2014).