Deric Carner

None of the Above

[Ping Pong Gallery SF]

The "options" on offer in "None of the Above" refer to ideas, places, movements and people that are abstracted from their quotidian, medial context. Their forms now function as obliquely suggestive carriers for a message whose intention and origin invite inquiry. The viewer is left to navigate these resonant subjects and specters, constructing the missing ground from an array of over-coded stylings. This journey through a graveyard of derelict ideas arrives at a more considered perspective, proposing narratives with an anti-hierarchical and speculative outlook.

Kevin Killian's review in SFMOMA's Open Space