"Abstract Means" Exhibition
SVA Chelsea Gallery
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School of Visual Arts (SVA) presents "Abstract Means," an exhibition of painting and photography by SVA students and alumni that examines the boundaries between abstraction and representation. The exhibition is curated by Richard Brooks, assistant director of student galleries.
Andrew Brischler's paintings explore how paint as a material can have an impact on the viewer's nervous system. The artist uses color, viscosity, texture and a vocabulary of marks, including scribbling, scraping and erasing, to investigate how a painting can be both a physical object and a multi-layered aesthetic experience. Brischler is a student in the MFA Fine Arts Department.
Using materials that resist or disrupt each other, Betty Hart's abstract paintings on paper emphasize organic processes. By dipping, soaking and scraping, the artist creates paper surfaces populated with controlled accidents that refer to landscape and the human body. Hart is a 2011 graduate of the MFA Fine Arts Department.
Kristen Long combines painting and sculpture in a biomorphic installation teeming with embryonic forms. Recalling the work of Yayoi Kusama, the installation contains two floor sculptures of intertwined tubular forms, which seem to have burst forth from abstract egg-shaped forms floating on a large canvas. Executed in warm and cool colors, the installation generates a sense of contained chaos. Long is a 2011 graduate of the BFA Fine Arts Department.
Kenneth Murphy's paintings initially appear to be abstractions, but closer inspection reveals an obscured representational basis to the work. Rendered in high-key color and energetic brushwork, the artist's layered and fragmented imagery comments on contemporary issues such as information overload. Murphy is a 2011 graduate of the BFA Fine Arts Department.
In her photographic series titled Morphogenesis, Corinne Schulze utilizes several representational strategies, from satellite imaging to microscopy, to explore geometries within natural forms. Her large color prints invite the viewer to examine nature's rich structures, regardless of context and scale. Schulze is a 2011 graduate of the MFA Photography, Video and Related Media Department.
[Image: Andrew Brischler "Cocaine Cowboy" (2011) Oil and wax on panel, 24 x 18 in.]
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Schedule
from July 05, 2011 to August 06, 2011
Opening Reception on 2011-07-07 from 18:00 to 20:00
Artist(s)
Andrew Brischler, Betty Hart, Kristen Long, Kenneth Murphy, Corinne Schulze