In order to arrive at what you are not, you must go through the way in which you are not — T.S. Eliot

Chase Pinckney presents ALL AND NOTHING, an assemblage of work, to open on May 30th from 6-9pm at 664 Anderson Street.

The works on view trace a movement from accumulation toward reduction. Earlier paintings are built through excess — layered materials, discarded works, and unresolved fragments of past pieces, reworked through oils, acrylics, pastes and resin. What begins as an attempt to improve or complete something that felt insufficient becomes a process of overbuilding, where discarded material is folded back into new surfaces in an effort to preserve, elevate, or conceal what remains unresolved. As the work progresses, forms begin to repeat and simplify. Shirts, empty fields, and the recurring zero emerge throughout the paintings, with the zero gradually becoming central: not absence, but subject. A place where meaning fails and restarts at once.

The works reflect a return to simplicity in both process and subject. Forms are reduced, repeated, and reconsidered over time, allowing earlier ideas to reappear in clearer terms. Painting becomes a way of continuing to work through the same elements until they settle into something direct. In this space, the zero functions as both ending and beginning, holding the work in a state of ongoing return.