Mark Bynon

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6th June — 5th August 2001

The Economist Plaza, 25 St. James’s Street, London , SW1A 1HG

During June and July Bynon will be presenting a new work De-Sign conceived specially for the plaza at The Economist building.

De-Sign consists of two shimmering cubes, each approximately two feet square, placed on waist high stone plinths. Many layers of lacquer and pigment encase these carefully crafted wooden boxes that have, respectively, a delicate covering of gold and silver leaf.

Bynon’s earlier works have consisted of small groups of objects that appear to be paintings, each with the same lacquered gold and silver leaf surface as De-Sign, installed in (or around) the corners of exhibition spaces.Bynon lives and works in London, is a graduate of the Byam Shaw School of Art and gained his MA at The University of Northumbria. His exhibitions have included Fresh Art at the Business Design Centre, London; Located at The Globe Gallery, North Shields and Sweetie at The Levis Gallery, London.

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Title - Jolly Roger

Date - 2010

Size - 28″ x 20″ x 2 1/4″

Medium - Plywood construction with laminate.

Title - Hazard

Date - 2010

Size - 26″ x 27″ x 2 1/4″

Medium - Plywood construction with laminate.

Title - Peace

Date - 2010

Size - 27″ x 27″ x 2 1/4″

Medium - Plywood construction with laminate.

Title - Recycle

Date - 2010

Size - 28″ x 27″ x 2 1/4″

Medium - Plywood construction with laminate.

8/29/2008

8:00 am - 5:00 pm

Contact:

Kelly Sharber

Location:

Law School Building 1st and 2nd Floor Common Areas of the Law School

Open to the Public

Draco, charred wood and          Rising Cool, Settling Warmth, oil on
lead by Richard Painter              canvas, by Farrar Hood

Vanderbilt Law School presents a selection of artwork from Zeitgeist gallery’s “Dialogues” exhibition series in the third year of curated exhibitions, highlighting contemporary artists in the Nashville area. Participating artists: Stephen Alvarez, Michael Baggarly, Todd Baxter, Mark Bynon, Mark Clarson, Richard Feaster, Farrar Hood, Christopher McNulty, Richard Painter, Simon Roberts, Terry Rowlett, Mark Tucker, Gene Wilken, and Lain York.

Exhibit Schedule: Aug. 18-Jan. 3, 2009

This is a gallery image taken during ‘Dialogues 3′ at the Zeitgeist Gallery in Nashville TN. The other artists from left to right are Michael Baggarly Macrophagia Hammered, Punctured Steel/ Steel Wool; 2008 48” x 48” x 12”, Christopher McNulty 20,193 Days burnt paper; 2007 25″ x 25″ and Mark Bynon Logo#1, 2008 28 ½” x 4 ¼”.

“Logo#1” is the start of a series of works based on the exploration of references and their meaning`. We encounter and have been encountering images, forms, materials and many more signs and symbols through our lives. How we process these encounters forms the way we perceive and understand things. It’s the main cause for the development of our individual ‘language’ we use to judge. This is something that spans ‘hi’ and ‘low’ arts. It makes us like one thing over another and it’s embedded in our subconscious, I am not placing a finite entity in font of you nor am I saying that this art means one thing. It’s multi-referential. It plays on the viewers experiences that they bring to it, like all art we view with reflection. This in turn reveals the fragility of ‘intended’ meaning. I appropriate these tools from my own experience and don’t expect you to have the same understanding of them, but directed in the same direction, I place the ‘anchor’ and the viewer receives.

“…… all images are polysemous; they imply, underlying their signifiers, a ‘floating chain’ of signifieds, the reader able to choose some and ignore others……Of course,…. The anchorage may be ideological and indeed this is its principal function; the text directs the reader through the signified of the image, causing him to avoid some and receive others; by means of an often subtle dispatching, it remote-controls him towards a meaning chosen in advance.” - Roland Barthes[1]

Of course this quote is directed at advertising, but we all use the same tools day in day out. We cannot avoid the devices and gimmicks used in our every day lives. In ‘Logo#1’ I have chosen a 70’s corporate logo. Corporate design for me stimulates all my perceptions of America when growing up as a teenager in England. To me it wasn’t cowboys. It was mid-century airports, cool New York buildings, Pan Am and much more.

Today these past ideals conflicts with my preconceived ideas of where I live now and the world we live in. I like to capture meanings and ideals. I do this through design which in turn works from references be it personal or general. Its about the balance of meanings and references that anchor my work. I believe art is a subject of context. Like Pan Am, it started out being one thing and is now remembered for something else. The fragility of meaning is what stimulates us and gives us interest in our world

1. Roland Barthes, ”Rhetoric of the Image”, Image, Music, Text. Fontanan, 1976, p.40.