Rack on display as part of the Formal Proof exhibition

In Formal Proof, Sterling Allen and Larry Graeber address established methods of
display–from floor, to ceiling, to wall, to pedestal–to marry them with practice and
establish a dialog amongst their work. Often starting from physical and image-based debris gathered from various sources, both artists generate works responding to their materials’ histories, the language they employed in the previous context from which they came, crossed with how they confront formalism and can exist within each artists’ established vernaculars. This repurposing, remixing, and accumulating builds on energies generated in the previous lives of the materials and the artists’ processes themselves. They are channeled it into a new interpretation where observations sit momentarily to be picked up and rolled along for future images, objects, and efforts.