NYAB Event - Group Exhibition

Group Exhibition

OK Harris Works of Art

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OK Harris Works of Art announces 5 one-person shows of new work.

Using geometric and overlapping fields of color, the works of John Thomas broaden the realm of non-objective painting. Their restrained elegance and understated simplicity mask an enigmatic sensuality that reveals itself slowly under examination.

Painting precisionist water landscapes on aluminum which he has abraded with various wire brushes, David Kessler creates an image that is produced partially by paint and partially by refracted light. The resulting surface has an almost holographic effect, giving the appearance of movement in the water surface as the painting is viewed from different angles. These large scale works are painted from intimate close-up images of calm or rippled water surfaces and range from realism to abstraction.

A fascination with cardboard as a material and with boxes as forms has inspired Stan Wiederspan to produce a series of "portraits" of boxes. The result is not a mere rendition of a utilitarian container, but becomes far more expressive and iconographic.

The images in this body of work are a reflection of Lilyan Aloma's ongoing interest in the urban environment and commerce's influence on our visual gestalt. It is an attempt to resolve the tension created by the over-development of a city.

In these drawings Doug Navarra starts with found paper documents and responds by adding his own marks, as "interventions" that set up a dialogue with the linear quality of the penmanship, original marginalia, and the stains and tears that have accumulated over the centuries. When his own personal history is added to a 200 year old piece of paper, it transforms the context of the page from a minor historical record into a work of contemporary, visual documentation.
[Image: Stan Wiederspan "031408" (2008) Acrylic on canvas 24 x 24 in.]

Media

• Painting
• Drawing

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