thegryllus

About me

The gryllus, or aenigma, was the operative principle of monstrous construction: monsters were formed by conjoining nameable parts taken from nameable creatures. Thus, a centaur is a man and a horse, a borometz is a tree and a lamb, and a heraldic wyvern is a two-legged dragon, derived from four-legg...

The gryllus, or aenigma, was the operative principle of monstrous construction: monsters were formed by conjoining nameable parts taken from nameable creatures. Thus, a centaur is a man and a horse, a borometz is a tree and a lamb, and a heraldic wyvern is a two-legged dragon, derived from four-legged dragons, which are in turn derived from lizards, snakes, and bats. Grylli are always formed by combining parts.

James Elkins, "Pictures of the Body: Pain and Metamorphosis"


Our work emerges from a collaborative verbal dialogue and a painted dialogue of human forms. The presence of fluorescent light firmly grounds the paintings in the now, with little other context available. A great deal of our work uses hands as architectural, fleshy armatures for paint. These edifices of flesh and physicality are as much about the paint itself as they are about the representative effects of the paint. We see canvas as an analogue for skin and paint as viscera and we experiment with the conventional hierarchy of these materials, by allowing the painted flesh to resemble the painted canvas. We use hands as a non-specific stand-in for the individual to communicate shades of the human condition and flirt with the evocation of other phenomena.

Information

• Name: Cara Thayer & Louie Van Patten
• Country: USA
• State: OR
• City: Bend
• Joined: August 01, 2010
• Favorite Music: Queens of the Stone Age, Of Montreal, Black Mountain
• Genre: Painting, 3-Dimensional Art, Portraits

• Links:
• http://www.bluecanvas.com/thegryllus/
• http://www.thegryllus.com

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