Rick Klauber "Recent Works "
Howard Scott Gallery
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New York City artist Rick Klauber's recent paintings on carpentry shims hover on the wall as lightly as birds on a wire. They seem to breathe color. Shims are shingles often used to level an architectural frame. Here they are exalted via the application of paint and the metamorphic processes of the artist's mind.
Klauber uses the shims as brushstrokes. The wall is the canvas. He paints each shim a single color and then attaches it directly to the wall echoing the shingle's original purpose. Like tesserae in a mosaic the individual shims coalesce into a painting. Acknowledging several traditions, these paintings feel uniquely current. They emerge at once as timeless and fresh. With the surface, gesture, color and placement of each shim, Klauber pulls meaning out of the ether. These paintings radiate a kind of hard-won serenity, a sense of rightness and natural magic.
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from January 28, 2010 to February 27, 2010
Opening Reception on 2010-01-28 from 18:00 to 20:00