Casper Brindle 2018

CASPER BRINDLE RECENT WORKS

William Turner Gallery

RECENT WORKS For Casper Brindle’s fifth show at William Turner Gallery the California native displayed bold new iterations of his celebrated Strata series while giving viewers a glimpse of the future with his brand new Portal series.

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he William Turner Gallery is pleased to present a new solo exhibition for LA based artist, Casper Brindle. Recent Works includes bold, new iterations of Brindle’s signature Strata pieces and introduces a brand new series of paintings on linen, titled Portals.

Portals - Brindle’s newest body of work - evolved from the otherwordly Aura paintings that he debuted in early 2017. Sharing the central form of an enigmatic bar of metallic leaf, the new works diverge from their pearl-white predecessors with their richly saturated colors. Painted on linen rather than panel, the surfaces are stained with gradients that radiate from light to dark, as if the beacon-like central form is emitting light and pulsating with it. The nuanced application of paint invokes the meditative and emotional quality of Rothko, while the use of gold and silver leaf recall sacred Byzantine icon paintings. Enshrouded by brilliant color, the metallic bars become even more pronounced, their monolithic presence inspiring a quiet reverence. Color and structure become inseparable as the viewer is drawn deep into the picture plane, left to ponder the mysterious imagery that the artist has presented.

Emerging from a history of innovative West Coast artists, who pioneered the Finish Fetish and Light and Space movements, Brindle has mastered the industrial materials

at his disposal - airbrush, auto paints, resin, wood. Borrowing tools and techniques from the industrial complex of California car culture, Brindle applies paint to the surface of his Strata paintings in multiple layers of fine airbrush sprays. The high gloss, resin finishes appear to liquify the shimmering stratums of color beneath and the effect is intoxicating. Atmospheric gradations of color are encased in hardened surfaces in a constant push and pull between depth, light and texture. Capturing the effect of light purely with color is where Brindle excels as a painter. Immersing the viewer into luminous, chromatic fields, these paintings transcend the representational suggestion of land and sea, evoking something more elemental, like vast & infinite horizons rushing across time and space.

Casper Brindle grew up surfing the beaches along LA’s coast during the 1970’s and 80’s, and worked for Light and Space artist, Eric Orr, in the late 1980’s. His work is in the permanent collection of the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation in Malibu, CA and has been exhibited at the Museum of Art and History in Lancaster, CA and the Laguna Art Museum in Laguna Beach, CA. The artist currently lives and works in Los Angeles.

This marks Casper Brindle’s fifth solo exhibition at William Turner Gallery.

Norte Horizonte, 2017 acrylic, automotive paint and resin on panel 48 x 96 inches

Mysto, 2017 acrylic, automotive paint and resin on panel 48 x 96 inches

Distant Refraction, 2017 acrylic, automotive paint and resin on panel 48 x 96 inches

El Boo, 2017 acrylic, automotive paint and resin on panel 48 x 96 inches

Norte Fuego, 2017 acrylic, automotive paint and resin on panel 48 x 96 inches

Unknown Ellipsoid, 2017 acrylic, automotive paint and resin on panel, 60 x 60 inches

Pacific Breadth, 2017 acrylic, automotive paint and resin on panel 60 x 60 inches

Diffused Silver Bounce, 2017 acrylic, automotive paint and resin on panel 48 x 72 inches

Blue Depth, 2017 acrylic, automotive paint and resin on panel 48 x 72 inches

Coppered, 2017 acrylic, automotive paint and resin on panel 48 x 72 inches

Distant Beginnings, 2017 acrylic, automotive paint and resin on panel 48 x 72 inches

Southern Dusk, 2017 acrylic, automotive paint and resin on panel 38 x 58 inches

Sparse Photon, 2017 acrylic, automotive paint and resin on panel 36 x 48 inches

Arcturus IV, 2017 acrylic on linen 48 x 96 inches

Sirius I, 2017 acrylic on linen 96 x 96 inches

Rigil Kentaurus III, 2017 acrylic on linen 48 x 72 inches

Canopus II, 2017 acrylic on linen 72 x 48 inches

Framed Refraction II, 2017 aluminum, automotive paint, clear coat, 67 x 40 x 40 inches

CASPER BRINDLE CV born: 1968 Select Solo Exhibitions 2018 Recent Works, William Turner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 2017 Light and Space Divisible, Nancy Toomey Fine Art, San Francisco, CA 2016 Aura & Strata, William Turner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 2015 Chroma, William Turner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Recent Work, Susan Street Fine Art, Solinas, CA 2014 The Grinstein Artist Invitational, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA San Francisco Art Fair, Toomey Tourell Gallery, San Francisco, CA Brett Rubbico Gallery, Newport Beach, CA Mana, Art 1307, Napoli, Italy Family Affairs, International Fine Arts Consortium, New York, NY MOAH Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA Mana Bali, Indonesia 2013 Azimuth, William Turner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Strata, Toomey Tourell Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2012 Stratum, William Turner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Flawless Finish Fetish, Susan Street Fine Art, San Diego, CA 2011 Birth to Sea Flight, Mint Gallery, Dana Point, CA 2010 Recent Works, Murphy and Dine, NYC, NY Light, Mint Gallery, Dana Point, CA 2009 Recent Work, Madsen Gallery, Los Angeles CA Select Group Exhibitions 2018 Laguna Art Museum Auction, Laguna Beach, CA 2017 San Francisco Art Fair (Toomey Tourell Gallery) Laguna Art Museum Auction, Laguna Beach, CA Art Palm Springs, (William Turner Gallery) Palm Springs, CA 2016 The Grinstein Artist Invitational, (Samual Freeman Gallery) Culver City, CA Art 1307/Gallery, Milan Italy

Pulse Art Fair, Miami, FL (William Turner Gallery) Laguna Art Museum Auction, Laguna Beach, CA Surfrider Foundation, Malibu CA Palm Springs Fine Art Fair, Palm Springs, CA (William Turner Gallery) Art 1307, Napoli Italy Unit London, London England 2015 Laguna Art Museum, Pallete to Palate, Laguna Beach, CA Miami Projects Fair, Basel Miami (Toomey-Tourell Gallery) Riverside City College, Riverside CA This Is Not Surf Art – Surfing Heritage and Cultural Center, San Clemente CA Palm Springs Fine Art Fair, Palm Springs CA (William Turner Gallery) “Mana” Art 1307, Napoli, Italy Ethereal, William Turner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Silicon Valley Art Fair (Toomey Tourell Gallery) 2014 The Grinstein Artist Invitational (Rosamund Felson Gallery) Santa Monica CA San Francisco Art Fair (Toomey Tourell Gallery) Family Affairs, International Fine Arts Consortium, New York, NY Brett Rubbico Gallery, Newport Beach CA MOAH Museum of Art and History Lancaster, CA SHM Surfing Heritage Museum, Huntington, CA 2013 “Mana”, Meld Gallery, Ka HI Art1307, Napoli Italy Skin Deep - Materiality, Sensuality and Paint, William Turner Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Aqua Art Miami, Miami, FL (Toomey -Tourell Gallery) Surfing Heritage Museum Benefit, Orange County, CA VFC Foundation, Venice CA Dallas Art Fair, Dallas, TX (Toomey–Tourell Gallery) 2012 Artist and Architects, Joe’s, Venice CA. IMPACT Emotions of Color, Art Space, Virginia Miller Gallery, Miami FL Light and Space, Melissa Morgan Fine Art, Palm Desert, CA Surfrider Foundation, Marina Del Rey, CA SIMA, Laguna, CA Aqua Art Miami, Miami, FL (Toomey Tourell Gallery) San Diego Art Fair, San Diego, CA (Susan Street Fine Art) 2011 Gleam in the Young Bastards Eye, William Turner Gallery, Santa Monica CA New Work, Murphy and Dine Gallery, Chelsea, NY Melissa Morgan Fine Art, Palm Springs CA. SIMA, Laguna CA Surfrider Foundation Benefit, Malibu CA Aqua Art Miami, Miami, FL (Toomey Tourell Gallery) 2010 SWELL, Metro Pictures Gallery, Chelsea, NY Aquarium of the Pacific, Long Beach CA Coming Out, SMAS South Gallery, Santa Monica CA Heal The Bay Auction 2009 Darkwave Exhibition, The IGM Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles CA SMAS South Gallery, Santa Monica CA

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