Infinite Games

club magic is proud to present our inaugural exhibition Infinite Games.

Infinite Games brings together the work of seven artists: Eleanor Anderson, Matt Demers, Jessica Gandolf, Meg Hahn, Allison McKeen, Hannah Stoll, and Jimmy Viera. These artists share a common approach—each work is just one move within a larger, ongoing exploration of visual logic, play, and the nature of abstraction.

These artists are playing what James P. Carse refers to as an infinite game—a game in which the players change, the rules shift, and the goal of the game is not to win, but to continue play, infinitely. They are playing the long game: each individual piece is just one more approach to solving the larger, lifelong puzzle of how to make work. These artists create the rules of their game, see how far they can stretch them, and then make new rules. Ad infinitum.

In the studio, each artist lingers with their works, asking not, how can I finish this piece? but rather: how can I make this piece more complex? Instead of finding the most direct route to complete a work, they opt to divert and digress, employing errantry (Eleanor Anderson’s term) and sometimes even changing their own rules midway.

They don’t work toward one goal, they work toward as many goals as they can identify. By refusing to play a singular game, instead opting to pursue a plurality of visual interests and languages, these artists are pursuing ambitious practices which don’t fit neatly into the conceptual packaging expected of artists. They instead build genuine, expansive, messy practices whose complexities spiral out, infinitely.

Proceeds from sales will be split equally between the artists and James’ experimental community for trans artists, Ultraviolet Studio Project.