Andrew Forge/Fairfield Porter Exhibition

Betty Cuningham Gallery

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The two person show of works on paper by Andrew Forge and Fairfield Porter will feature a broad selection of works by each artist, including approximately 16 watercolors by Forge and 12 of Porter’s ink and pencil drawings.

Fairfield Porter joked that he may have become an abstract artist had it not been for a comment Clement Greenberg made that figurative art had become obsolete (referring to Willem de Kooning’s Women). Porter resisted Greenberg’s thinking and spent his career painting and drawing landscapes and portraits. When he worked, Porter focused on the individual shapes which made up his subject as opposed to the finished image he was creating. Similarly in his drawings Porter focuses on edges – those of an island, a corner, a rooftop, or a tree.

Like Porter’s works on paper, Forge’s are reductive and can be read as notations. These later works in this exhibition are composed of dots of color. The dots are carefully placed, one influencing the next. Similar to Porter, Forge’s work depended on a specific view, but unlike Porter, Forge’s images are more about the reflected light and less of the form.

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Schedule

from December 13, 2008 to January 31, 2009

Opening Reception on 2008-12-13 from 18:00 to 20:00

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