PoP Goes The Darkroom Collaborative Exhibition...

The PoP Goes The Darkroom Collaborative Exhibition will be hosted by Clayspace/831 Gallery on 831 South Front Street Columbus, Ohio. Opening reception is January 4th 6-9 P.M with music from Greg Hale...

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.....From the darkroom to the spotlight, the improbable collaborative artwork of W.E. Arnold and Joss Parker is a paradoxical love affair between two entirely different worlds, and the viewer is privileged to balance on the thread between them. W.E. Arnold brings to the table the anti-tourist realism of abstract street art—from the streets of Columbus, Ohio to Shanghai, China. Arnold aggressively hunts for the authentic reality of his environment instea

d of trying to construct it, and brings us his photographic evidence of what he unearths. His commitment to the aesthetics of traditional film and darkroom purity gives us a rich tapestry of gritty back alleys, luminous skylines, and urban realism.

Joss Parker is, in many ways, a patchwork of many different places and times, much like Pop art itself. Joss explores some of the world's iconic images with a glibness only found in Pop, and when utilizing the photography of W.E. Arnold to frame his paintings, the contrast only heightens the artistic effect of each. This exhibition is the next stage in the evolution of these dynamic artists. This union of a multiplicity of seemingly contradictory worlds that inhabit the same space touches something uniquely contemporary, which is perhaps why it works so damn well.