Nathan Hylden "Affinity"
Paul Kasmin Gallery
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"Affinity" juxtaposes new paintings by Nathan Hylden with works by Josef Albers, Frank Stella and Andy Warhol. Curated by Meredith Darrow, the show connects Hylden's geometric forms and repeated gestures with those of his art historical predecessors.
Like Albers, Stella and Warhol, Hylden uses a regulated process to create variations within a systematic sequence and to continue Modern Art's redefinition of pictoral space. Starting with a stack of identically sized aluminum panels, Hylden adds layers of paint and ink to these reflective surfaces, changing the order of operations for each panel. As the series progresses, older panels are used in the creation of newer ones— for example, vertical bands of white paint bridge the borders of separate panels, forming an indexical link between these individual works within the larger series. Another unifying motif presents itself in the screen-printed image of a one-to-one photograph of a blank canvas hanging on a wall. Hylden deliberately chose the loaded notion of a "blank canvas" to evoke long-standing concerns about the relationships between the illusory depth of an image and its physical support. Grounding itself in Albers's pure geometry, Stella's insistence on the potential of formal abstraction, and Warhol's interest in serialized imagery, Hylden extends the conversation to the next generation of artists and viewers.
Nathan Hylden was born in 1978 in Fergus Falls, Minnesota, and currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California. He studied at the Art Center in Pasadena and at the Städelschule in Frankfurt/Main.
[Image: Nathan Hylden "Untitled" (2009) acrylic on aluminum 34 x 28 in.]
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from October 01, 2009 to October 31, 2009