Deric Carner uses drawing and graphic forms as a way of navigating and relating to the world. He is a collector and manipulator of signs and messages, incorporating visual and textual fragments into an over coded vocabulary. They are taken from a globalized environment and mindset that is so loaded with signs and references, that meaning is constantly disintegrating or reforming around de-racinated forms.
On view at Ping Pong Gallery are a series of hand-painted graphic posters which take an uncanny pleasure in naming and associating. Odd objects are paired with headline references to fictional and real locales, movements and people. These elliptical markers invite viewers to enter a territory of double, negated and hidden meaning. This work emerges from a perspective of rational skepticism; yet moves beyond towards the paradoxical freedom and tensions of semiotic vertigo.
March 14 - April 25, 2008
PING PONG GALLERY
1240 22nd Street (between Pennsylvania and Mississippi)
San Francisco, CA 94107
415.550.7483
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