Bryan Gammage

Scenes from life and visualization of thoughts.

Postmodern ideology strongly influences my work. In the post-script to his novel “The Name Of The Rose”, author Umberto Eco eloquently explains the relationship between Modernism and Postmodernism perhaps better than anyone else has.

Eco states, “I believe that postmodern is not a trend to be chronologically defined, but, rather, an ideal category …a way of operating …The avant-garde destroys, defaces the past: Les Demoiselles d’Avignon is a typical avant-garde act. Then the avant-garde goes further, destroys the figure, cancels it, arrives at the abstract, the informal, the white canvas, the slashed canvas, the charred canvas. In architecture and the visual arts, it will be the curtain wall, the building as stele, pure parallelepiped, minimal art; in literature, the destruction of the flow of discourse, the Burroughs- like collage, silence, the white page; in music, the passage from atonality to noise to absolute silence (in this case, the early John Cage is modern).
But the moment comes when the avant-garde (the modern) can go no further, because it has produced a metalanguage that speaks of its impossible texts (conceptual art).

The postmodern reply to the modern cons...

BFA University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana

2022 Jan 4 - 31 Figures and Faces
OPAL Carriage House Gallery Oak Park IL

2021 Dec 1 - Jan 7 Wholeness
440 Gallery Brooklyn NY

2021 Nov 3 - 20 Member Show
OPAL Carriage House Gallery Oak Park IL

2021 Nov 1 - Jan 31 Solo Show
Kettlestrings Gallery Oak Park IL

2021 Oct 5 - 28 Made to Disrupt
OPAL Carriage House Gallery Oak Park IL

2021 Sept 1 - 30 National Juried Exhibition
OPAL Carriage House Gallery Oak Park IL

2021 Sept 1 - 30 TERRA & TIDE III
Envision Arts Magazine Online Gallery

2021 Aug 3 - 26 Intersection of Art and Music
OPAL Carriage House Gallery Oak Park IL

2021 Aug 1 - 31 Onyx III
Envision Arts Magazine Online Gallery

2021 July 28 - Oct 1 Featured Artist
Oak Park Country Club River Grove IL

2021 July 23 - Sept 1 Solo Show
Cross Function Gallery Oak Park IL

2021 June 29 - July 29 Small Works
OPAL Carriage House Gallery Oak Park IL

2021 June 2 - June 24 Contemporary Prairie
OPAL Carriage House Gallery Oak Park IL

2021 May 4 - May 26 Intersection of Word & Art
OPAL Carriage House Gallery Oak Park IL

2021 Mar 31 - April 29 Centennial Anniversary
OPAL Carriage House Gallery Oak Park IL

2021 Mar 2 - Mar 25 Space to Breath
OPAL Carriage House Gallery Oak Park IL

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