Vincent COMO
Black Mass
From: January 23, 2010 - February 27, 2010
Artists' Reception: Saturday January 23, 6-8pm
Proof Gallery is thrilled to present Black Mass the Boston solo debut
of Vincent Como. The title of the exhibition is deliberately double
in its meaning - referencing the physicality of the objects in the
exhibition and the suggestion of arcane rituals. Every work in the
show is an all-black mass and in their totality are meant to explore
the transformative potential of matter and consciousness; darkness is
the conduit.
The exhibit flirts with an occult vernacular in a pop manner but the
artist’s investigation of his subject is conceptual and poetic.
The sculpture 4.5 Cubic Inches (Volume of the Inside of My Head) is a
cast block of Sumi ink which literally corresponds to the physical
space occupied by the artist’s brain. As an object, it makes
reference to the physical manifestation of conscious thought removed
and displayed for observation. Blackspace is an editioned painting
which was inspired by Thomas Merton, a Trappist monk and friend to Ad
Reinhardt, who once expressed a desire to have one of the artist's
Black Paintings in his cell at the Monastery as an aid to meditation.
A full-size pine coffin is stained with Perylene Green-Black, the same
industrial pigment used to shield the Stealth Bomber from radar
suggests the object as vehicle for a secret, sacred journey.
Vincent Como lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He has had solo
exhibitions at VONZWECK and Western Exhibitions in Chicago, IL and PS
122 in New York and exhibited widely nationally and internationally.
He has been an artist-in-residence at Anchor Graphics and Cliff
Dwellers in Chicago. He is the co-Founder and Director of Horse
Trader Gallery in Brooklyn NY.
- Artist's website 
- Flickr photostream of the exhibition
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