A Summer Exhibition - Part 2 Geometry and Color
An Online Presentation : August 4 to September 15, 2024
Isaac Aden
Carl F Anderson
Nathan Ethier
Matthew Kluber
Mokha Laget
Robert C Morgan
Lester Rapaport
Oli Sihvonen
Andrew Spence
Robert Swain
Laura Watt
Thornton Willis
Ben Woolfitt
ISBN: 978-1-955260-39-8
Front Cover: Isaac Aden, Tonal Painting 36 , 2021, Oil on canvas, 60 x 48”
Title Page: Carl F Anderson, El Caraco l, 2023, Acrylic and thread on canvas over wood support, 43 x 43 in
Back Cover: Isaac Aden, Tonal Painting 29 , 2020, Oil on canvas, 60 x 48”
Some Like It Hot
A Summer Exhibition - Part 2 Geometry and Color
An Online Presentation: August 4 - September 15, 2024
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Copyright © Lester Rapaport
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Copyright © Robert Swain
Copyright © Laura Watt
Copyright © Thornton Willis
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A Summer Exhibition - Part 2 Geometry and Color
An Online Presentation : August 4 to September 15, 2024
Some
Like It Hot
A Summer Exhibition – Part 2: Geometry and Color
Isaac Aden
Carl F Anderson
Nathan Ethier
Matthew Kluber
Mokha Laget
Robert C Morgan
Lester Rapaport
Oli Sihvonen
Andrew Spence
Robert Swain
Laura Watt
Thornton Willis
Ben Woolfitt
The second of a four-part summer series of online exhibitions at David Richard Gallery will focus on compositions rooted in Geometry and Color. Both are generally considered less subjective than expressionism and a more formal, non-objective language. For many of the artists included in Some Like it Hot - Part 2: Geometry and Color, that could largely be true, consider Matthew Kluber, Mokha Laget, Robert C Morgan, Oli Sihvonen, Robert Swain, and Thornton Wills. Each of these artists tend to have rigorous compositions and adhere to variations on grids and systemic approaches exploring color interaction and adjacencies. However, such devices and approaches do not prevent the artist’s inspirations and influences from entering their visual language and imbuing a certain amount of content. Architecture, nature, space, optical and illusory effects, and suggestive titles, along with color, a potent signifier in and of itself, all bring energy to the pictures and challenge perceptions. In turn, these influences trigger the artist’s and viewer’s memories, beliefs, and emotions to varying degrees and on different levels.
Other artists are more overt and deliberate in their processes and intentions to convey a particular image and message. Along with the formal tools and approaches noted above, such artists also utilize patterning, layering, texturing surfaces, as well as using a hint of referential imagery and text in an otherwise non-objective, abstract painting. The artists who work in a more intentional way include: Isaac Aden, Carl Anderson, Nathan Ethier, Lester Rapaport, Andrew Spence, Laura Watt and Ben Woolfitt. In the curation of this presentation, color has been used as an important unifying factor with a focus on palettes at the warm end of the spectrum.
David Eichholtz
August 5, 2024, New York
Nathan Ethier
Tell Me How You Really Feel , 2019
Matthew Kluber
Split Infinitives (Magenta) , 2021
Alkyd on aluminum
30 x 40”
Matthew Kluber
Split Infinitives (Orange v2) , 2021 Alkyd on aluminum
Red and Vase , 1990-1991
Untitled Study 7x7 – 4x20 , 2019
Study 7x7 – Red and Green , 2019
Ben Woolfitt the day of..., 2022
Silver leaf, oil pastel and graphite on paper 14 x 22”
early one morning , 2023
