NYAB Event - Gilbert Hsiao "Jump & Flow"

Gilbert Hsiao "Jump & Flow"

Minus Space

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MINUS SPACE announces the exhibition Gilbert Hsiao: Jump & Flow. This is the New York-based artist's second solo exhibition with the gallery and his first in New York after living in Berlin, Germany for the past four years. Hsiao's exhibition will consist of an installation of recent shaped patterned paintings.

Gilbert Hsiao is one of the foremost pattern painters of his generation. Profoundly influenced by music - ranging from Minimal to Funk to World music genres - and an avid record collector, Hsiao has produced complex, non-narrative paintings, drawings, and works on paper since the early 1980s that foreground pure visual sensation. Concerning his greater practice he states, "I want to bring into being visual experiences for which we do not yet have words, but can experience nonetheless".

Although premeditated in appearance, Hsiao works intuitively and builds the patterns and configurations in his paintings through the repeated process of taping and painting layer upon layer of line and color from the panel support forward. His color palette is refined and unambiguous, often utilizing three key colors: black, white, and silver. He then commonly combines these with one or more fluorescent colors, such as yellow, green, orange, red, blue, or purple.

Six years ago, Hsiao reached a seminal breakthrough in his work and began using shaped panels for his paintings. In the beginning, this included circles, triangles, and diamonds, but rapidly evolved into more complex shapes, such as pentagons, hexagons, octagons, parallelograms, quadrilaterals, trapezoids, kites, and pie shapes. The new shapes, when combined with the dynamic patterns depicted on them, appear deceptively simple, yet bestow a sense of preverbal contemplation on the viewer.