ASU Herberger College School of Art Faculty Exhibition

October 18, 2008 – January 25, 2009
Opening Reception: Friday, October 17, 7-9 p.m.

Forrest Solis, Assistant Professor, Painting, Drawing

Doll Parts
Oil on Canvas 32" x 35"
Courtesy of the artist

My work is grounded in observation. I construct complex set-ups with mirrors to manipulate what I see and alter my perception. Through this process of fragmentation my figure exists between subject and object, outside the realm of order. I have a deep interest in philosophy, particularly ideas of the uncanny, the carnivalesque and abjection, all of which subvert systems of order and comfort, offering us freedom from repression and logic. I do not consider myself ordered and knowable nor in my set-ups do I literally see myself as ordered and knowable. The French philosopher Kristeva writes, “It is thus not a lack of cleanliness or health that causes abjection but what disturbs identity, system, order. What does not respect borders, positions, rules. The in-between, the ambiguous, the composite.” The Power of Horrors, Approaching Abjection.

More information: John Spiak, spiak@asu.edu.

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