Eric Legris • Dominic Terlizzi • Jeremy DePrez

Press Release

The Front is pleased to announce the exhibition Someday this will all be yours with paintings by Dominic Terlizzi, Eric Legris and Jeremy DePrez.

The exhibition title Someday this will all be yours comes from a passage within Kurt Vonnegut’s novel Cat’s Cradle. The passage occurs at a point within the book in which the world is falling apart and a father tells his son that “someday this will all be yours”. The act of passing something down can seem like a fortuitous exchange on the surface but underneath that surface is a more complex and burdensome affair. This show asks the question: what is our relationship to burden and how do we negotiate those relationships through an existence charted within the confines of painting?

DePrez, Terlizzi and Legris all use the structure of painting as a way to navigate and work within the space of how one deals with the burdens of ones objective and psychological being. DePrez constructs paintings utilizing the excavated ruins of his own consumption as a way of defining and reaffirming his existence. Terlizzi casts paint into mosaic assemblages that manipulate the diurnal, residual debris of our collective presence into low relief narratives. Legris employs the act of needlepoint and a familial relationship to craft as a meditative point of departure into a visually discursive space informed by and depicted through the language of painting.

Collectively the work presented moves in and around one another in a way that exposes the burdensome nature of the human need to understand oneself within a world unwilling to divulge any obvious purpose, yet littered with a seemingly endless amount of clues as to what that purpose might be. An absurd situation we hold onto, carry and pass down from generation to generation with the only consolation being an unwavering desire to put the clues together and the possibility of where that might take us.