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PAST GROUNDED IN NATURE
Vincent Pocsik + Ian Tredway, 2020
Digital Exhibition 09

"And this gold leaf – we all know this but it really touched me when I saw it – the gold leaf shone right from the back of the room, out of a deep darkness.  Which means gold seams to have the capacity to pick up even the smallest quantities of light and reflect them in the darkness."
- Peter Zumthor, Atmospheres: Architectural Environments, Surrounding Object (Basel, Switzerland: Birkhäuser, 2006) 58.
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gather some materials
internet for service
muted and neutral-ish
depicted soil and rock
a mending element
moving and making
barrier between myself
the direct emotion
one red hat
old Byzantine wood sculptures
exposed structures
green, blue, or yellow
the layering of nature and culture
adding ornamentation
creating a barrier
please do not apologize
walk off the main path
three cement walls
years of layered spray paint
the color pink
blue, red, and yellow
the color fades rapid
rudimentary
even subconsciously
transition from rusted green to the blue
the blue of that bridge

​
industrial blue
a blue that works
blue in the sky
marks have been healed
relationship to material, nature, color
paved concrete
power lines transforming miles
imprints of the trees
taking field samples
nature and culture
carve it out of wood
take it back
art and ideology
a constant struggle
balance
dyed paper pulp
unorderly and unplanned
plants, rocks, concrete
the debris, and the humidity
the unchanging pole
an endless struggle
cast in resin
cope or restructure
exhausted and drunk
river and mountain
gold leaf

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Self-isolated viewing of PAST GROUNDED IN NATURE in Little Italy, Omaha:
Photos Courtesy of Dan Schwalm
Compiled video from Ian Tredway:
Video Courtesy of Ian Tredway
Photos Courtesy of Ian Tredway & Vincent Pocsik
Compiled video from Vincent Pocsik:
Video Courtesy of Vincent Pocsik
Email conversation between Vincent Pocsik, Ian Tredway, and Mike Nesbit regarding this digital exhibition:

About the Artists:
Vincent Pocsik is an American artist from Cleveland, OH who currently works and lives Los Angeles, CA.  ​Vincent’s work balances old and new fabrication techniques to breathe new life into materials while holding onto the richness of the past. This process is influenced by the desire to push the traditional boundaries of mediums such as wood, glass and metal so each work transforms into an anatomical expression and presence of its own.
www.vincentpocsik.com

Ian Tredway is a Nebraskan artist living and working in Omaha. Ian received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, with an additional residency at Santa Reparata School of International Art in Florence, Italy, and is currently pursuing his Masters of Public Administration at the University of Nebraska-Omaha. He is currently the director and curator of GHOST Art Project, an online exhibition project and publication, and runs the brick-and-mortar art gallery, The Sanctuarium, in Benson, Nebraska. His artwork has won the Jean R. Faulkner Award and his curatorial work have been nominated three times for the Omaha Entertainment and Art Awards including outstanding “Group Show,” “Two-Person Show,” and “Solo Show.”
www.iantredway.com
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  • ABOUT
    • BOARD OF DIRECTORS
    • THE SPACE
  • EXHIBITIONS
    • SEASON 8 (2025) >
      • PICTURES OF NOTHING
    • SEASON 7 (2024) >
      • THE SILENCE OF LIGHT
      • SEASONS
      • HOME ON THE RANGE
      • DE STIJL TRANS AM
      • SITE WORK
      • FOR RICHER, FOR POORER
      • MATTER SHIFTING SHAPE
    • SEASON 6 (2023) >
      • OPEN STUDIO V
      • NEBRASKAFLAT
      • WORDS HAVE GONE TO SLEEP INSIDE...
      • EN SILENCIO
      • SHOW AND GO
      • OPEN STUDIO IV
      • POST FACADE
      • GANDZASAR AT HIGHLAND
    • SEASON 5 (2022) >
      • WHO KNOWS WHAT WILL HAPEN
      • VENTURING MIDWEST
      • OPEN STUDIO III
      • BROKE EVEN WHEN I BET THE FIELD
      • HARMONY AND DISSONANCE
      • OPEN STUDIO II
      • THE FADE
      • SPIRALING SOLITUDE
      • IMPROVISE
      • OPEN STUDIO
    • SEASON 4 (2021) >
      • Automatic Composition
      • This Will Get Us Somewhere
      • CRUISE CONTROL
      • Off Alondra and Hickory
      • DIG
      • Unfamiliar Appearing
      • Floral Rodeo
      • Shiny Side Up
      • Expecting Snow
      • FORWARD
    • SEASON 3 (2020) >
      • EMPTY SPACES
      • Winter Saturdays are for Spring
      • A High Disregard
      • Between the Void
      • 12:38
      • Precarious as Obtained by Entreaty or Prayer
      • A Morning in Little Italy
      • Past Grounded in Nature
      • Silence and Intimacy
      • Highway Hypnosis
      • Between Nonchalant and Relaxed
      • The Fickle Crowd
      • High Peak Monocacy
      • 251,000 Trees
      • Textured Sound
      • The Room and The Landscape
      • VERNACULAR
      • MOVEMENTS
    • SEASON 2 (2019) >
      • FOUNDATION DRAWINGS
      • DANIEL IN OMAHA
      • SHED
      • Little Italy Abstracts
      • CHARRETTE
      • The Hand and The Arm
      • A Surfer's Time
      • Los Angeles Sunsets and Quiet Landscapes
      • Perspective BLUE
      • No Road Most Traveled
      • POST-NOVIS
      • Pairings
    • SEASON 1 (2017-2018) >
      • KATHY
      • Above The Silos
      • THE BLUES
      • To Be Pigeon Holed
      • The Fool's Journey
      • Wall Assembly
      • The Map and its Porcelain Goat
      • Loose Landing
      • Long Ago, Far Away
      • Victories Over The Sun & Campus Stories
      • Perspective Flood
      • Falling Vertical
      • Textured Blue
      • FLOOD
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