Terry Winters "Knotted Graphs"
Matthew Marks Gallery 522 W 22nd St.
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The paintings on view in this exhibition mark an important step forward in Winters’ oeuvre. The influence of scientific theory is present in familiar grids and patterns upon which the images are built, and yet they possess a spontaneity and fluid movement in space that breaks away from any kind of rigid underpinning. One important reason for this is the artist’s decision to use transparent lake pigments almost exclusively. The artist notes that the transparency of the paints allows for one to witness “all the events that went into the making of the painting.” In the paintings, columnar forms suggested by built-up geometric patterns appear alongside mathematically derived shapes which the artist calls “knot-forms.” Winters continues to investigate the complexities of space that painting alone is able to conjure, drawing on the tension between organic and inorganic forms.
[Image: Terry Winters "Knotted Graphs 6" (2008) oil on linen 77 x 98 in.]
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from November 06, 2008 to January 24, 2009