Platform Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings by Blake Haygood. Larger in  scale than his previous print-based work, “Buck Fever” is comprised of works on panels which provide the viewer with a mysterious glimpse into an anxious, alternative universe. Blake’s work depicts an odd, shifting  world in which partial and fragmented machines are simultaneously coming together while coming apart. The parts, which include shafts, blades, belts, cogs, and ropes may be sagging or might be sailing through a silent space without a horizon or sense of scale. While a feeling a melancholy pervades the work, a cautious optimism sneaks around the edges of the unknowable machines.

Blake is a 2004 Artist Trust GAP Grant awardee.