Mark Cannariato
On east ease mines and my diamondsss

October 26 - December 1, 2013
Opening reception: Saturday, October 26, 7-10pm

Installation view: Mark Cannariato, On east ease mines and my diamondsss, Peninsula Art Space, Brooklyn, New York, 2013

SEVAA IIANNNnnn, on clams
2012
Wood, twice, chicken wire, acrylic, and marker
109 x 36 x 36 inches

SEVAA IIANNNnnn, on clams (detail)
2012
Wood, twice, chicken wire, acrylic, and marker
109 x 36 x 36 inches

Hesssapheia doce crown open air dream a long leaf plaza, from another land.
2010
Acrylic, white birch wood, various found wood, twine, bicycle inner tubes, fake teeth, aluminum foil, chicken wire, and duck tape
53 x 20 x 20 inches

Hesssapheia doce crown open air dream a long leaf plaza, from another land. (detail)
2010
Acrylic, white birch wood, various found wood, twine, bicycle inner tubes, fake teeth, aluminum foil, chicken wire, and duck tape
53 x 20 x 20 inches

As ever so cold, I'm a lock ten up.. , 2013
Acrylic, wood, twine, and chicken wire
16 x 13 x 8 inches

Spluck - iral in mind, this kid needs time.
2013
Acrylic, wood, twice, and chicken wire
23 x 32 x 12 inches

That mess with saandchiild spike blessed on a bloodshiiine - BLACK DIAMONDSS
2013
Chicken wire, wood, twice, acrylic, miscellaneous debris, and canvas
122 x 112 x 55 inches

yells low, skicksss bow, and a roam incomplete engulfs brother mark.
2011
Chicken wire, acrylic, wood, twine, bicycle inner tubes, fake teeth, aluminum foil, and burlap
64 x 90 x 35 inches

yells low, skicksss bow, and a roam incomplete engulfs brother mark. (detail)
2011
Chicken wire, acrylic, wood, twine, bicycle inner tubes, fake teeth, aluminum foil, and burlap
64 x 90 x 35 inches

Eaassst
2013
Pleather, wood, bicycle inner tubes, acrylic, fake teeth, chicken wire, cardboard, and twine
71 x 38 x 13 inches

MIIAUH
2011
Acrylic, charcoal, marker, miscellaneous debris, and pastel on canvas
43 x 32 inches

O's and odd end in Brookland.
2013
Acrylic, paint stick, pastel, wood, twine, and canvas
56 x 67 x 1 inches

over sun east melon
2011
Acrylic, charcoal, marker, and miscellaneous debris on canvas
60 x 51 inches

I meant it from the beginnin and winnin, soul sucka force as told by the white man.
2013
Wood, twine, chicken wire, and acrylic on canvas
76 x 109 x 11 inches

Peninsula Art Space is pleased to present a solo exhibition titled On east ease mines and my diamondsss by Mark Cannariato. The exhibition will be on view from October 26th to December 1st, 2013.

Including a body of work spanning the last four years of Cannariato’s practice, On east ease mines and my diamondsss features a series of mythological deities, bizarre sceneries, and crude characters alongside slanted cartoon imagery invoking peculiar codes and figures. Drawing from such diverse areas as Caribbean history, Terrytoons, spaghetti westerns and sci-fi comics, Cannariato’s work opens onto a cycle of imagined scenarios whose ingredients mix to produce a rather unfamiliar, ritualistically assembled, result.

Using a wide array of found objects, Cannariato’s work attempts to (re)construct the language of an unknown or imaginary history through semi-ritualistic and meticulous transformation of readymade objects. What emerges is an idiosyncratic sculptural idiom, which always point to an elsewhere.

Mark Cannariato was born in Louisiana and has lived most of his life along the Gulf of Mexico. He received an MFA from the University of Southern Florida. He has exhibited throughout the southern states and in New York. He has been a resident at the Millay Colony for the Arts in New York, the Atlantic Center for the Arts in Florida, and Kunst-Stoffe in Berlin. He lives and works in Brooklyn.

www.postmedium.org/cannariato

Photography by Cristina Mañas

Mark CannariatoOn east ease mines and my diamondsss

Mark Cannariato
On east ease mines and my diamondsss