Bryan Rindfuss’ present exhibition “Junk Tradition,” which opens this Friday, explores intrinsic points of nonetheless life pictures and idiosyncratic human conduct — particularly, the peculiar act of gathering and arranging objects and the cultural standing of the detritus this exercise leaves behind.
Objects are offered in repletion, conjuring the polarities of materiality and absence. As with a nonetheless life, the topic is implied however not current. Titled after the 1984 Orchestral Maneuvers within the Darkish album of the identical identify, “Junk Tradition” is constructed round a maximal proliferation of pictures of discovered objects and imagery forming repetitive, graphic patterns.
The marked absence of individuals alludes to a way of abandonment and evokes questions concerning the relics common people depart behind. The commonplace is elevated in such a means as to legitimately query the valence of the strange.
As a complement to “Junk Tradition,” Rindfuss can also be presenting “Mirror, Mirror,” an ongoing venture based mostly on the digital mirroring of architectural particulars. Captured at gasoline stations throughout the state of Texas, “Mirror, Mirror” additionally employs commonplace imagery, on this case hinting at the potential of extraterrestrial life.
Pictures by Rindfuss — a frequent freelance contributor to the Present — have been exhibited at Salón Gallos in Mérida, the Woodstock Heart for Pictures and I-5 Gallery in Los Angeles.
Free, 6-10 p.m. Friday, Jan. 2 and by appointment, FL!GHT Gallery, 112R Blue Star, (210) -872-2586, fb.com/flightSA.
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