NYAB Event - "Recent Works on Paper" Exhibition

"Recent Works on Paper" Exhibition

Howard Scott Gallery

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Howard Scott Gallery presents an exhibition of Recent Works on Paper by four international emerging artists: Rolf Behm, Francisco Castro-Leñero, Rebecca Salter and Fred Stonehouse.

Rolf Behm - Citing the main characteristics of his work as being color, light, and space, he employs a combination of acrylic paint and oil – in thin and transparent layers, one above the other - in "illuminating abstract forms and giving depth to the surface". He strives for ambiguity in his work, wanting to set into motion the viewer's ability to evoke his or her own associations and imaginings.

Francisco Castro Leñero - One of the principal strengths of Castro-Leñero's work has long been the vibrancy and beauty of the role of color, which he weds to the geometric organization of his works. The depth and subtlety of these works continue to reveal his sensitivity to color through the interweaving of deep reds, mustard yellows and earth colors, in interaction with black and altered whites constitute a marked departure from the sunlight-filled palettes which bespeaks his Central American environment and heritage.

Rebecca Salter's paintings reward patient, prolonged study. Their calm [and calming] orchestrations of subtly nuanced colors and abutting rectilinear areas belie the painstaking processes involved in their making. Close viewing reveals a dense network of both parallel and crossing lines - some incised and others produced by a very precise dripping / pouring technique. Successive, thin applications of acrylic paint - sometimes in brilliant hues - are gradually overlaid with the linear webs of quieter colors - blues, greys, rust-reds, and earth tonalities. Those who sense an Oriental, or Eastern, aspect to the paintings' approach to color and to spatial relationships will not be surprised to learn that the artist studied and did research at a university in Kyoto for two years, then stayed on in Japan, living and working as an artist.

Fred Stonehouse's art is resolutely humanist. His subjects are despairing and freakish characters cast from a motley pool. They often appear beaten down, broken, and drained of their humanity. Many of their visages bear a resemblance to Stonehouse –the artist as everyman.