Michael Biddle "The Respondent Surface: Paintings 2005-2009"
M55 Art
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Michael Biddle’s work is always endowed with a sense of playfulness, which definitely pervades this recent group of paintings. But, there is also an element of disquiet, due in no small part to the tensions that he creates by contrasting a multitude of irregular shapes, surfaces and colors. One cannot help but consider the lessons from Hans Hoffmann, when confronted with, what Hoffmann termed, the “push-pull” of the picture plane. However, Biddle’s palette does not reveal such immediate artifice, with subtle gray shapes that are juxtaposed with warmer hues, often with a more bold and painterly application, again to assert the tensions that are so important to his elaborate surfaces.
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from March 12, 2009 to March 29, 2009