Next Friday, March 16, the Hecklewood shop (2431 Thurman Street) opens a show by Denver-based artist Jason Thielke. Jason Thielke feeds back on the urban environment with black and white line drawings–many are architectural renderings, really–of buildings, vehicles, cityscapes that are built up in sometimes complex layers as granchildren of Rauschenberg via gel transfer medium on panel. Thielke plays with Letratone graphic textures, familiar symbols and images, mixing them up in often visually noisy compositions with color as a second-tier tactic. Much as Thielke keeps distance between artist and subject (and for that matter subject and viewer–this is a processed vision), the drips and drops Thielke introduces into the work keep the appearance of the artist’s and his process in the work (though it could be a head-fake: the digitally-rendered “drip”). Humans, in Thielke’s work get the interesting treatment of appearing as if they are studies, with the planes, volume, and shading of the figures indicated linearly leaving them like figures in an incomplete color-by-numbers painting. Go see.
–Radon
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