John Borowicz "Sprawling Conglomerates"
Adam Baumgold Gallery (60 E 66th St.)
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In .his first New York solo exhibition, John Borowicz uses a vocabulary of deceptively simple shapes to construct saturated fields of architectural forms, completely filling the drawing surface. In other drawings, single structures stand alone on an otherwise blank page. One is never certain if the forms are man-made, naturally occurring, or some bizarre combination of the two - a crop of modernist cave dwellings run amok.
In the large drawing titled "A Plausible Result of Sustained Spontaneity", 2010, the artist obsessively stacks layer upon layer of seemingly infeasible architecture upon the page without the space ever receding. In a sea of undulation, the specificity of each form is neutralized like snowflakes in a blizzard. The terrain itself, although filled with a multitude of dimensional shapes, is flipped upward before us, reconciling the opposition between volume and flatness. At close range the units are at once generative and parasitic, growing out of and into the environment they themselves are creating. At a distance the overall busy quality of the piece seems to quiet and reassert itself in a more minimal way - as a constant layer of static or white noise.
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Schedule
from June 17, 2010 to August 04, 2010