Debra Kayes

Gush, featuring work by Stacza Lipinski and Paul Nudd, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Chicago. See more about the exhibit here.

Stacza Lipinski and Paul Nudd approach their work from the gut level: compulsive making that combines nausea and nervousness. In their respective studios, both artists find great comfort in being surrounded by piles of unfinished things. Gush is a way of making and seeing. The meandering mind, a gush of thoughts, an eruption of ideas and whims lead to visceral works on paper fixated on mark making and rupturing textures; in short, a prolific and often formless pile of bilious and luscious things. For this show, Stacza and Paul exhibited sculpture, collage, and a few videos and will risk their reputations and friendship to create a collaborative cut-paper wall installation made out of miscellaneous studio detritus, castaways, outtakes and B-sides. Dubbed the Interactive Remnant Wall Installation or IRWIn, Lipinski and Nudd play off one another’s most recognizable tropes: mutated figures and embryos, amorphous shapes and drips, unruly color and patterns, ambiguous bacterial dilemmas.