First Amendment Gallery's latest exhibit is titled Loose Copy, an exhibition of paintings by Oakland-based artist Odysseus Wolken. This latest series of work is a personification of different memories, allowing them to interact with each other as deconstructed representations.
Loose Copy explores these memories by deconstructing forms and reconstructing them with a childlike sincerity. The series tempers its formal simplicity with the complexity of things not fully known, investigating the relationship between memory and experience. As the gap between these grows, our recollection of them shifts, and each image aims to capture this continuous transformation.
Odysseus Wolken, was born and raised in Western Massachusetts. He studied at the New England School of Art & Design, RISD, and the San Francisco Art Institute. At SFAI, he studied under Bruce McGaw, Daniel Lawrence, and Brad Brown. He has shown work at The Juxtapoz Clubhouse in Denver, Good Mother Gallery in Oakland, Superchief Gallery in Los Angeles, and at SWIM Gallery in San Francisco.
