Nobu Fukui Exhibition

Stephen Haller Gallery

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Fukui’s new series of paintings is inspired by an image he experienced of a sky dense with swirling flocks of birds. The surprise three-dimensionality of crystalline or pearl-like beads touched with paint adds to the dazzling complexity of these dynamic works, and a sense of movement is suggested by circular images - wheels within wheels in a kaleidoscopic richness of intense color. The new scattering of beads suggests spawn – a vibrancy of teeming life and vitality.

Fukui’s work reads as non-objective painting at a distance, yet on closer observation beguiles with surprisingly provocative imagery that suggests narrative. The eye plays across the surface of his work as if watching a video game in giddy visual delight. Oil paint, acrylics, three-dimensional beads, collage; these are some of the ingredients of this exciting work. Fukui displays “a virtuoso control over his materials” writes critic Carter Ratcliff in his Art in America feature on the artist.

There has always been a push-pull in Fukui’s collage-based paintings of the last few years – a sensation of almost falling into the celestial spaces of the early series, or of being drawn in to the densely packed imagery of his Art in America or Superheroes series. His distinctly fresh approach creates a kind of Pollock-like frenzy of color, re-inventing action painting with images.

[Image: Nobu Fukui "ALLURE" (2009) Mixed media, beads on canvas over panel, 18 x 48 in.]

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from September 10, 2009 to October 17, 2009

Artist(s)

Nobu Fukui

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