Victor Kord "Algorithm and Blues"
June Kelly Gallery
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Kord describes his work as “the product of appropriated or found shapes from popular newspaper advertisements. I compose, manipulate, select palettes, and create surfaces upon which these shapes are arranged, often in intuitive ways.”
Although the exhibition title suggests a calculated step by step approach to painting and the use of repetition, Kord says he relies on “the randomness of appropriation to establish an order beyond the reach of one’s imagination.” His use of the word, “Blues,” in the exhibition title, he comments, “refers to their appeal to our emotions, for my paintings are about the contest between intuition and arithmetic.”
In Kord’s work, there is geometric order that references the scientific. It is subtle but present. It underlies the rich color and the solid form, which serve as visual protagonists. “In my paintings, these elements collide — the rational and the expressive — and activate the work,“ he says. “It’s kind of a tongue-in-cheek play on the musical form of “Rhythm and Blues.”
[Image: "Peach Drift" (2008) Acrylic on canvas, 48 x 48 in.]
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from September 04, 2008 to September 30, 2008