| Gregory Euclide at Limited Addiction |
| Written by Ken Hamel | |||
Gregory Euclide: New WorksLimited Addiction GalleryJune 6 - 29, 2008Preview Reception: Thursday, June 5, 6:00 - 8:00 pm Artist Gregory Euclide at Limited Addiction - photo by Ken Hamel/DenverArts.org Gregory Euclide stalks memories of nature through a variety of pseudo-preservation techniques that create a distance from his subjects while also idealizing them, as if they were rare botanical specimens from another era, or planet even. While the works mimic the experience of nature, there's no mistaking the melting, distorted plastic and torn edges that make up many of the subjects for anything bucolic, rather this is the nature of some post-apocalyptic setting ready to disintegrate at any moment. The highlight of the exhibit is a massive "greenhouse" hosting a variety of Euclide's petri dish creations, crumpled bits of paper that approximate botanical subjects encased in plastic looking as if they're ready to actually hatch from the warmth of their womb-like setting. - KLH Click here for some pix from the exhibit. Limited Addiction Gallery 825 Santa Fe Drive Denver, CO 80204 303.893.4234 http://limitedaddictiongallery.com
photos by Ken Hamel/DenverArts.org 
(from the press release) Limited Addiction Gallery proudly presents a solo exhibition of new works by Minneapolis-based artist Gregory Euclide; it will be the artist’s first in Denver. For his new series Euclide continues to explore the delicate dichotomy between urban and natural experiences through themes of protection and preservation of our environment. Euclide will create a site-specific installation that experiments with process and material, including large-scale sculptural works and studies of the illusion and actuality of space. The artist’s installation will include a sensory-driven experience for gallery guests. A room inside the gallery with an industrial, almost hygienic aesthetic will be constructed by Euclide to exhibit his works and sculptures in an entirely controlled environment; here suburbia intersects with unfamiliar terrain. The installation’s key component is this pressurized room, emitting familiar scents to heighten the senses in unexpected ways. Euclide focuses on the construction of space and the viewer’s experience of it, transforming the visual potential of a three-dimensional landscape to encourage exploration and discovery. His use of materials, both fabricated and natural artifacts, creates contradictions between what is “the projection of idealized, picturesque views of landscape and our desire to have an authentic experience in nature.” Euclide’s imaginative works use materials ranging from acrylic, pencil, paper, mylar, resin, beeswax, PETG and wood. About the Artist: Gregory Euclide is currently featured in the exhibition Badlands: New Horizons in Landscape at MASS MoCA, in North Adams, Massachusetts. He has had recent solo exhibitions in Seattle, Washington, and Los Angeles, California, and he was featured in the 2008 Anniversary Show at Limited Addiction Gallery. Euclide was awarded the Minnesota State Arts Board Initiative Grant through the N.E.A. His work has recently been published in New American Paintings, San Francisco State University Review, The Milwaukee Journal, and San Francisco Weekly. Euclide currently lives in Minneapolis where he is completing an M.F.A. at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, having been awarded the Trustee Scholarship. Euclide will have completed his M.F.A. in June 2008, coinciding with the opening of his solo exhibition at Limited Addiction Gallery.
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