Lloyd Martin and Johnnie Winona Ross "Landscape as Grid"
Stephen Haller Gallery
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Stephen Haller Gallery announces the opening of a two-person exhibition, LANDSCAPE AS GRID: the abstract paintings of Lloyd Martin and Johnnie Winona Ross.
There are numerous long-standing formalistic elements in painting tradition, few of which are as ubiquitous as the grid or the landscape. Rarely does one see them used in conjunction with one another and seldom does one observe them employed with relatively equal importance. Both the grid and the landscape figure significantly in the works of Lloyd Martin and Johnnie Winona Ross - each arriving at his own unique and very different conclusion.
Painters utilize the grid in both a conceptual and in a literal sense. Conceptually, although appearing in a myriad of forms, the grid can function as an organizing constant between the forces of order and chaos. It is, in reality, a reduction to basic form. In this case, the grid is the reduction of the landscape to its purest essence. When the grid is used in its literal/physical sense, its presence on the canvas is not always easily perceived; this is not the case in the work of either of these two painters.
[Image: Lloyd Martin "Migrate (21)" (2009) Oil on canvas, 72 x 84 in.]
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from May 14, 2009 to June 20, 2009