• DAVID CORBETT
  • Light Brings Dark Brings Light

  • hallway installation
  • JOHN CICHON ( I Am Nature Too )

  • 65GRAND is pleased to present David Corbett in his second solo exhibition with the gallery, Light Brings Dark Brings Light. Corbett's work has come from an interest in 19th century American landscape painting as well as the likes of Caspar David Friedrich. A symbolist, almost spiritual, element in these artists' works, that of the notion that "a spiritual place in a landscape could define a relationship between the viewer and nature," has inspired Corbett. This is played out in the figure/ground relationship, in such landscapes, where the idea of man in nature is literally represented. Corbett's interest in reducing the landscape structure to its fundamental figure/ground equation has led to even further refinement: breaking down the landscape to the essential pieces of form, color and space. With the stark contrast of his intensely colored, radiating forms set against luminescent grounds, Corbett now hopes to investigate ideas of narrative.

  • Currently based in Beaverton, Oregon, David Corbett received his MFA from Rutgers University and his BFA from San Francisco State University. Other exhibitions include: Saturation at Portland Modern and Disjecta in 2006. And in 2005: Tightrope at the Dorothea Thiel Gallery of South Suburban College; Representations at the Contemporary Art Workshop in Chicago; and Cul de Sac with 65GRAND. He has been featured in the publications Portland Modern and New American Paintings. Corbett also Co-Directed the Guest Room Project in Chicago during 2005.

  • John Cichon will present I am Nature, Too in the hallway. Cichon received his MFA from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and his BA from Indiana University, Northwest. Selected exhibitions include Skintimate, a solo show presented by Gallery Northwest at IUN, and ANA 34, juried by David Pagel and Polly Apfelbaum at the Holter Museum of Art in Helena Montana, both in 2005.