John Wesley "Alice’s Floor: Repetition and Absence"
Fredericks & Freiser Gallery
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Fredericks & Freiser presents a historical exhibition of John Wesley paintings from 1977 to 1990. "Alice’s Floor: Repetition and Absence" focuses on two aspects of Wesley’s paintings that during the 1980’s became less narrative and more elemental. Wesley’s large repetition paintings from this time consist mostly of simple forms such as dogs, sailboats, horses, mountains, and babies. The visual rhythm of their seriality creates a dynamic between positive and negative space and a perceptual shift from figuration to abstraction. However the overall tone of these works comes from the multiplication of the form itself and is nothing less than haunting.
Likewise, Wesley’s paintings of absence from this time period have a similar sense of disquiet. These visualizations of emptiness become internalized as emotional states. Here the two opposite modes of painting hold the similar power of psychological hieroglyphs.
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from May 04, 2012 to June 09, 2012