James Nares Exhibition
Paul Kasmin Gallery
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Paul Kasmin Gallery presents an exhibition of James Nares' new paintings and a video installation, Element Number One. This will be the first time the artist's paintings and video will be on view together. The exhibition follows his acclaimed thirty-four-film retrospective, Motion Pictures at Anthology Film Archives in May of 2008.
Known in the 1970s for his music, films and performances, and affiliation with the No Wave movement, Nares is now recognized primarily for his paintings, but has continued to work in multifarious mediums. His paintings are most frequently made in a single brush stroke and record a single movement. The works are made in a circular process by which the artist repeatedly creates and erases strokes until the desired result is achieved: a record in paint of a moment in motion. The artist keeps a vast collection of handmade brushes at the ready, which he makes himself from fibers fabricated in Asia. This exhibition marks a departure for the artist. Rather than using the solid cadmium, ultramarine, and magenta pigments frequenting his work of the recent past, Nares' most recent paintings incorporate iridescent pigments. Reminiscent of butterfly wings on dark backgrounds, these pigments, colorless in the can, create a multi-tonal effect by means of light refraction rather than actual pigmentation.
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Schedule
from January 15, 2009 to February 21, 2009