Taylor Lee & Peter Chan

Another Place is pleased to present Crash and Burn, a dual exhibition of paintings by Peter Chan and sculpture by Taylor Lee.

The sky is burning and a robot parachutes to safety. It’s a scene of high energy, captured in vibrant colors, smoothly laid with hard edges, like 8bit animation but dancing toward abstraction. From an outdoor kiln, where ancient ceramics and pottery is made, a prehistoric creature emerges from an inferno. Inside, its surface is transformed by the heat and by metallic glazing, radiating purples, maroons and green, giving the little monster its sheen. It’s a dinosaur, an almost-godzilla, a nod to the ancients that can be held in your hand.

This is Crash and Burn, in which painter Peter Chan and sculptor Taylor Lee thread through nostalgia, art history, video games, toys, and whatever else lays in their path to create a more energetic and playful world. A dual exhibit of these two artists welcomes the contrast between fast flying robots, painted in vivid, bright hues, and the slow moving stomp of clay creatures, which come to life in clay with scars of flame. Pop culture collides with pre-history in an eye-popping explosion of narrative and pathos, crashing and burning into the visual plane and into our hearts.