"Affinities: Painting in Abstraction" Exhibition
D'Amelio Gallery
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D’Amelio Terras invites curator Kate McNamara to present Affinities: Painting in Abstraction, a group exhibition of artists working in abstraction.
While the paintings of the exhibition are seemingly disparate in structure, each exemplify common attributes made visible through the artist’s engagement with process and practice; each painting foregrounds technique and pushes the medium through an active investigation and dissection of abstraction. Many of the paintings were conceived through action-oriented methods, made visible through paint stains, the presence of handiwork, or the orientation of brushwork. These paintings collaboratively solicit and invite an investigation of painting, abstraction, process, and practice. The proposed exhibition provides a charged space where these relevant discourses can be considered, without being imposed, and petitions the viewer to deliberate on her or his own assumptions about painting as a material, a vocabulary, a genre, a pluralistic history, and critical tool. The word “affinities” is used in the context of this exhibition to express and secure the multiplicity of relationships imposed, maintained, insinuated, and assumed throughout the show. “Affinities” suggests certain associations and similarities in defining the paintings and the artists of the exhibition, as well as captures a working definition for the word abstraction. “Affinities” also relates to paint as a substance that is relied upon for its use in combination with other material; it has the capability of facilitating relationships between color, texture, structure, and design. “Affinities” also points to interpersonal dialogues and independent relationships the artists have with one another.
[Image: Dona Nelson "Lunar Eclipse" (2011) acrylic on canvas 48 x 48 in.]
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Schedule
from June 30, 2011 to August 19, 2011
Opening Reception on 2011-06-30 from 18:00 to 20:00