Installation view, Ron Ewert, I was not aware of that, 2021, Chicago. Courtesy of the artist and Good Weather

Ron Ewert

I was not aware of that

15.08.2021—23.10.2021

I was not aware of that is an exhibition of two distinct yet interrelated bodies of work that are presented in the gallery’s main space on the first floor and in an auxiliary space on the fourth floor. The work is broadly concerned with levels of self-awareness and a processing of knowledge.

Installation view, Ron Ewert, I was not aware of that, 2021, Chicago. Courtesy of the artist and Good Weather

“I VAGUELY REMEMBER SEEING A REPLICA OF IT SOMEWHERE BUT MAYBE IT WAS A DREAM”

Work in progress, Ron Ewert, 2022, New York. Courtesy of the artist and Good Weather

Ewert's paintings use a variety of indexical makeshift printing processes that fix objects and actions into a graphic visual language, opening up and confusing the pathology of painting.

The work in I was not aware of that specifically deals with personal change, new understandings, and political consciousness in the context of the year 2020 with the simultaneous crises of COVID-19 and the escalating movements for racial justice in the United States.

The artist reflects on his role in the production of cultural objects at this present inflection point. Often overwhelmed, often lost, often confused: the works present symbolic conflations in multitudes that reflect a personal searching.