Acceleration
by David Gillanders

Galerie Trois Points
November 19 – December 19, 2009
opening: November 19 at 4 pm

Gillanders’ painting disrupts the boundaries between the image and our perception of it. Delicate surfaces and a meticulous approach seduce first, and then an invitation to slow and varied readings takes the viewer deep into the work. This exhibition revolves mostly around two series of work depicting a process of exponential growth. The artist invites the viewer to a reflection on the numerous varieties of accelerating change occurring around us in contemporary society.
Within ten paintings, and ten short doublings, we jump from two subtle spots of light, open-ended signifiers of change, to one thousand and twenty four. We could easily imagine the state of things if there were an eleventh or twelfth painting. Conceptually, there is nothing to stop us from projecting this series forward endlessly.

(from gallery press release)