XX — CLYDE CONWELL

Death&Rebirth

2018-2022

$Painting’s Dead Fag /\ | \/$

$Primacy \\//| \/ |\\// Vessle Vessel Vace Vape Vacate Vs || Red Blue Yellow Primery$

$\./\./ in blue$

$why i isolate \/ >< /\ push release putt putt… puddle$

Ordained to be Adorned: I’m Baroke •<>•<>•<>•

$Funerary A to Z Por~tal/trait /\ GraveSTONED and Chill$

$\/ <> /\ ||| Grave-ity$

Death&Rebirth

Selected works, 2018-2022

Death&Rebirth is a collection of pieces meant to highlight a foundational process throughout Clyde’s practice. Across paintings, sculptures, and drawings certain shapes recur in Clyde’s work and, together they constitute a personal iconography. Through repetition, these shapes work to destabilize meaning, to change the perception of the object into a temporal symbol, instead of a universal truth. The symbol’s independence from any one context allows for variable meanings such that a simple link appears to be intestines, then transforms, in another instance, to a celestial body, sunglasses, breasts, a penis, a vase, a framing device, an exclamation point, a human form or a pattern. Through this continuous reframing of each object, in every new context, the viewer is shown their own ability to adapt to each new meaning. For Clyde this reuse of objects becomes a visual language. The transformative properties or multiple subjectivities that each object contains allows the visual language to exist not just from the artist’s conceptual perspective, but also from each viewer's personal perspective.