Jim Holyoak and Matt Shane: Forestrial Brain

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Jim Holyoak and Matt Shane, "Forestrial Brain," 2017

Installation work in progress, Photographer: Yannick Grandmont

On Saturday, August 12, Jim and Matt discuss their collaborative process, past projects, and their current installation at Open Space, "Forestrial Brain". The artists will speak to their trek on the West Coast Trail, their histories as artists and collaborators, what drives their work, and the materials and concepts that make up "Forestrial Brain". Discussion is welcomed!

Open Space presents a collaborative artwork, Forestrial Brain, by the duo of Jim Holyoak and Matt Shane.

It starts in the wild lands of the West Coat Trail, where Holyoak and Shane will spend 10 days hiking to collect impressions, visual documentation, and to provoke their imaginations for a vast and immersive drawing that will cover the walls at Open Space.

During July and August, Open Space will transform into a space of flux and metamorphosis, mapping the tension between what is abundant and what is endangered, what is real and what is imagined, what is untempered contrasted with the effects of human interruption. Animals, their habitats, and plant life will all be met with fantasy, and will live in a newly imagined space.

You will lose yourself in the immensity of the drawn experience at Open Space. As artist Shane explains:

“This shared world is one at the borderlands of wilderness and civilization, the real and the imaginary, deep time and the present.”

Open Space invites you to the finissage (Closing Reception) of Jim Holyoak and Matt Shane's collaborative drawing installation Forestrial Brain. The installation is the culmination of an 8-day hike on the West Coast Trail, and a 6-week residency at Open Space. The enormous and immersive installation explores west coast forests and ecologies, steeped in fantasy and imagination.

The Closing Reception will begin at 7:00pm, August 25

with music to follow by Holy Oak, White Poppy and Hush Hush Noise (Lily Fawn and Eric Hogg) at 8:30pm. Please join us for an exciting evening with the artists and guests!