ANIMAL
M. David & Co.
September 20, 2019-October 20, 2019
“Gadd's new works shatter the boundary between painting and sculpture—Vernacular Art and Modernism— with an uncanny sense of balance, grace, violence, and intimacy.
Nothing looks as it seems—all of the "found pieces" are not found, but instead, carefully hand crafted using a wide range material from the industrial to the classical (paint, dyes, wax, plaster, resin) created by the desperation for the human touch.
In works like Bryce and Heron or Shadow Self, whether hanging from the ceiling or tethered to the wall, Gadd intuitively creates a personal secular bestiary; a Catholicism turned heretical– mutated, human, tragic, heroic– for an age where nothing makes any sense, a staggering Man/Beast/Bird hybrid slouching toward Bethlehem searching for salvation where none may be found.”
-Michael David 9-28-19