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Friday, May 04, 2012
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Bridgette Mayer Gallery is pleased to present its first two person exhibition of distinguished contemporary abstract painter Neil Anderson and internationally acclaimed winner of the New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Painting, Leslie Wayne. "New Works� will be on view from May 2 – 26, 2012 with an opening reception Friday, May 4th 6:00 – 8:30 PM. The exhibition will feature some of their most prominent recent works.
Predominantly concerned with the flatness of the picture plane, Neil Anderson uses nonrepresentational formal expression as a means for intuitive improvisation during his painting process. Beginning by photographing random segments of organic objects and projecting them onto the canvas, Anderson then applies color to the fragmented web of outlined shapes in a series of continually refined layers. His large works, which are often comprised of two joined canvases with a center divide, draw viewers' attention to the flatness of the medium. Through their two-dimensionality, the colors and the forms they createe become the subject of the works. On his theory of color in his works, Neil Anderson states, "While each color has its own mass and density, that equality is always modified by the circumstance. For me colors have physical reality, which is structural rather than decorative.�
Much like Anderson, Leslie Wayne believes in the corporal nature of color. Blurring the boundary lines between painting and sculpture, Wayne combines the two practices by slicing, folding, scraping, manipulating, and sculpting layers of paint onto small-scale canvases to createe three-dimensional surfaces. Unlike most sculptors who paint the forms' surfaces after they have been shaped, Wayne transforms the paint itself into a sculptural medium. Viewers watch as the vibrantly colored masses, folds, and ribbons of paint appear to experience the forces of geology firsthand. Engaging viewers with the physicality of her artistic process, Wayne manipulates the medium to resemble the natural phenomena of flowing lava and stratified rock formations, evoking a visceral sense of compression and movement. On the importance of this malleable materiality in her pieces, Wayne states, "It's analogous to the physical process of the natural world, in which material is pushed under pressure. I try to give the paintings that same sense of physical inevitability.�
Gallery hours are Tuesday - Saturday 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. & by appointment. For additional information please contact t: 215 413 8893 e: [email protected]
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Predominantly concerned with the flatness of the picture plane, Neil Anderson uses nonrepresentational formal expression as a means for intuitive improvisation during his painting process. Beginning by photographing random segments of organic objects and projecting them onto the canvas, Anderson then applies color to the fragmented web of outlined shapes in a series of continually refined layers. His large works, which are often comprised of two joined canvases with a center divide, draw viewers' attention to the flatness of the medium. Through their two-dimensionality, the colors and the forms they createe become the subject of the works. On his theory of color in his works, Neil Anderson states, "While each color has its own mass and density, that equality is always modified by the circumstance. For me colors have physical reality, which is structural rather than decorative.�
Much like Anderson, Leslie Wayne believes in the corporal nature of color. Blurring the boundary lines between painting and sculpture, Wayne combines the two practices by slicing, folding, scraping, manipulating, and sculpting layers of paint onto small-scale canvases to createe three-dimensional surfaces. Unlike most sculptors who paint the forms' surfaces after they have been shaped, Wayne transforms the paint itself into a sculptural medium. Viewers watch as the vibrantly colored masses, folds, and ribbons of paint appear to experience the forces of geology firsthand. Engaging viewers with the physicality of her artistic process, Wayne manipulates the medium to resemble the natural phenomena of flowing lava and stratified rock formations, evoking a visceral sense of compression and movement. On the importance of this malleable materiality in her pieces, Wayne states, "It's analogous to the physical process of the natural world, in which material is pushed under pressure. I try to give the paintings that same sense of physical inevitability.�
Gallery hours are Tuesday - Saturday 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. & by appointment. For additional information please contact t: 215 413 8893 e: [email protected]
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