Closing reception:
New Works by Gary Cannone
“Manet/Degas”
May 4th, 2024
2-9pm
At Compound Yellow
#244 Lake street
Oak Park, Il, 60302

Join us for the closing reception of "Manet/Degas", consisting of works by LA artist Gary Cannone. Don't miss your last chance to see this important work presented at Compound Yellow!

*** All works are available for sale, price list available upon request and at the closing! Pick up works by 9pm.

Wonderful write up by Lori Waxman for Hyperallergic

Thank you to Susan Snodgrass for this critics pick in Art Forum:
https://www.artforum.com/events/gary-cannone-552112/...

“Few artists are as well-equipped to meditate on the relationship between wheelchairs and doormats as Gary Cannone.” — overheard

Gary Cannone employs substitution, parody, props, and slapstick to create an art that embraces physical and conceptual deflection. Cannone, born in 1964, grew up in an immigrant household on Chicago’s northwest side in the 1970s and was fixated on comedy: Candid Camera, Norm Crosby, Mad Magazine, Tom & Jerry, Carol Burnett, and Andy Kauffman. The first fine art objects which interested him — such as Dada, Eva Hesse’s Hang Up, or Rauschenberg’s Erased De Kooning — had a structural playfulness similar to the comedy he loved.

Cannone’s early work included customer surveys, subliminal messaging, how-to books, libraries within libraries, conversion charts, and phone trees. In 2013, Cannone was diagnosed with a neurological illness which affects his cognitive function, manual dexterity, and ability to walk. His counterintuitive response has been to convert this into a boon to his art practice, crafting a methodology inspired by the phenomenological experience of his disability and converting his daily stumbling blocks into a generative force. His embroideries, doormats, furniture, and overhead objects focus our attention on obstacles in communication and movement, not as a source of frustration but as space for a kind of poetry.