Alexis Rockman "Half-Life"
Nyehaus
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Rockman’s new body of work playfully mines the rich history of post-war American painting. The Color Field movement took the idea of biomorphic painting and made it inorganic. Artists of that era worked to remove all recognizable imagery in order to present a pure visual abstraction. The paintings of “Half—life” juxtapose these abstract shapes with the iconography of natural history. The abstract washes and veils of paint suggest biomorphic forms and mutations in a landscape fraught with tension between technology and biology. Depictions of flora and fauna invade the abstract or are in turn invaded by it. The two styles vibrate against and with each other, creating a collision that transforms both painting languages. Famous science fiction author Bruce Sterling contributed the below essay in celebration of Rockman’s new body of work.
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from March 07, 2009 to April 18, 2009