1543 A Wazee Street Media Contact: Denver, CO 80202 Nicole Schwager | Assistant Director 303.893.4234 [email protected] www.davidbsmithgallery.com • FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE • Gregory Euclide Observing only the ease of my own slipping toward your unknown September 15 – October 13, 2012 Opening Reception: Saturday, September 15, 7 - 9 pm Free and open to the public. / Artist in Attendance. David B. Smith Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new works by artist Gregory Euclide. For this exhibition, Euclide expanded upon the scale and visual vocabulary of the works featured in his most recent exhibition at the gallery. Featuring several large-scale square sculptural relief works, this exhibition marks the first time Euclide has returned to a square format since being commissioned by the musical group Bon Iver to create the cover artwork for their 2012 Grammy-winning album. Further distancing this series of work from a horizon- bound format, Euclide employs multiple perspective views with his signature sculptural assemblages and circuitous composition to at once re-define landscape and simultaneously break ground on something completely new. A keystone of the exhibition, Laid Down & Wiped Slowly Away, is a magnificent temporary painting composed by Euclide on a 48 x 96 inch dry erase board installed in the project room of the gallery. In the spirit of the Laid Down & Wiped Away classroom project released this summer, portions of the painting will be Gregory Euclide, My lines push through the grid and evaporate on the over erased throughout the exhibition, until the board is returned to its under, 2012, acrylic paint, astilbe, found foam, geranium, goldenrod, moss, paper, pine cone, sage, sedum, sponge, string, 49 x 49 x 9 1/2 in. (124.5 x 124.5 original state, and this process will be documented on the x 24.1 cm) gallery website. From magnificent sculptural relief works, to a series of smaller, intimate monoprints conceived on Euclideʼs European honeymoon, it is clear that his practice has reached a stirring new moment, both conceptually and aesthetically. Euclideʼs work remains infused with the lush overgrowth and references to societal structures from years past, yet his quest for answers (and more questions)—in regard to our place in the natural world, the risks we habitually take by exploiting it, and how these ideas can play across and through materials—has never been more apparent. Please join us for a reception with Gregory Euclide celebrating these exciting new works, to be held at the gallery on Saturday, September 15, from 7 - 9 pm. In addition, the exhibition opening will be accompanied by the release of a 94-page, full-color catalogue documenting Observing only the ease of my own slipping toward your unknown. About the Artist Gregory Euclide is an artist and teacher living in the Minnesota River Valley. His work has recently been featured in Badlands: New Horizons in Landscape at MASS MoCA (2008-2009), Otherworldly at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York (2011), Small Worlds at the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio (2011), and was on view this summer in the solo exhibition Nature Out There, at the Nevada Museum of Art, through September 2012. Euclide was awarded two Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grants through the National Endowment for the Arts, and a Jerome Foundation Residency through the Blacklock Nature Sanctuary. In addition, he was a recipient of the 2011-12 Jerome Foundation Fellowships for Emerging Artists. Euclide received his MFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. About David B. Smith Gallery David B. Smith Gallery is Denver's venue for compelling contemporary art. Since its founding in 2007, the gallery has been committed to presenting intelligent and culturally relevant exhibitions featuring work from some of today's most dynamic artists with growing international reputations. Through extensive media coverage and participation in leading art fairs, David Smith has cultivated a strong regional, national and international collector audience. The New York Times hailed the gallery as offering, "an exciting contrast of cutting edge works." In addition to its curatorial program, David B. Smith maintains an active publishing division, which produces limited edition artist prints and monographs. ### .