Please join us to celebrate the opening of
an exhibition of new works by

Nao Matsumoto,
Bryan Rojsuontikul
& Ian MacLean Davis

October 11, 2008

Press Release

Washington DC -- Most contemporary artists today strive to make poignant statements about our current society while still speaking to the formal history of making art. In its inaugural exhibition, Hamiltonian Artists and Gallery proudly present new works by three artists who seek to challenge viewers to experience this artistic pursuit through their works: Nao Matsumoto, Ian MacLean Davis and Bryan Rojsuontikul.

Nao Matsumoto's new sculptural forms draw upon themes and messages derived through the observation of bizarre and biting relationships in his everyday surroundings. Matsumoto seeks to extract an emotional response from the viewer by presenting a sardonic cocktail of carefully blended ironies. Nao Matsumoto is an artist/educator living and working in Brooklyn, NY.

Ian MacLean Davis explores the relationships between the high and low elements in modern technologies, visual cultures and obsessive study. Davis creates abstracted paintings and drawings born from pop images, with which he examines the effect technology and pop culture has had on learning, image recognition and memory. Ian currently lives in Baltimore, Maryland, and is a member of the So-Hamiltonian Fellowship program.

Through the use of utilitarian materials, Bryan Rojsuontikul also places the focus on pop culture. As Rojsuontikul pays homage to the history of Washington Color School hardedge painting, he also challenges its limitations while he builds his colorful and elaborate Duct Tape installations. Seemingly, these sprawling installations are truly about color and abstraction, and through this guise, he emphasizes the psychological and physical monolith this industrial material represents. Bryan Rojsuontikul is a resident of Northern Virginia and also a So-Hamiltonian Fellow.

The exhibition opens October 11, 2008 and will continue through November 2, 2008, with an opening reception on the evening of October 11, 2008, from 7pm to 10pm. Music by DJ Gavin Holland.

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