Jim Napierala "The Modern Dance"
Allen Projects
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Napierala’s elegant yet expressive Flashe, aluminum leaf, and acrylic paintings on wood panel are multi-layered, both materially and metaphorically. Layers of paint and leaf veil one another, both concealing and revealing what lies beneath. The overlay of faceted color and form result in a beguiling and optically complex visual experience. A distillation of modernist strategies provides an abstract of the painting of the last 100 years. The work channels Impressionism’s retinal effects, Expressionism’s gesture, Surrealism’s automatic bio-morphism, and Minimalism’s obsession with the grid. Napierala’s work mirrors the visual cacophony that we encounter every day, while evoking the history of modernism. They are a Cubist harlequin run amok in twenty-first century New York .
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from March 13, 2008 to April 16, 2008