Douglas Witmer “Today is the Day”
M55 Art
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Philadelphia-based artist Douglas Witmer presents a new set of paintings that further clarify his intuitive sensibilities related to surface and color. Combining simple geometric imagery, emphatic color, and subtle manipulation of surface physicality, his paintings are inquiries into the materiality of seeing, perception, feeling and memory.
“Witmer has a very special way of putting down paint. It’s hardly there, though it is so there: all at the same time. The colors are returning to their rich hue. And when we refer back to this ‘almost not there, but how so there’, the talk of the canvas with this fine shudder of pigment raises questions to the moor,” the Tokyo-based artist Brent Hallard has recently written about Witmer’s work.
Douglas Witmer’s work has recently been exhibited at P.S.1/MoMA and Minus Space (NYC), Gallery Siano (Philadelphia), The University of Maryland, The University of Dayton (OH), Sydney Non-Objective (Australia), and Bus-Dori Project Space, Tokyo, Japan.
This is the artist’s first solo exhibition in New York.
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Schedule
from November 13, 2008 to December 07, 2008