NYAB Event - Five Solo Exhibitions

Five Solo Exhibitions

OK Harris Works of Art

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OK Harris Works of Art presents five solo exhibitions: Alex Zwarenstein, Tony King, Allen Harrison, Mark Chester, John Tallman.

John Tallman work consists of twelve intimately scaled “paintings” poured and cast using pigmented urethane plastic, powdered metal and acrylic paint. Each work illuminates a material quality of contemporary painting without declaring an allegiance to a particular direction. Letting intuition function within the language of the historical precedence of abstraction, subject matter that is overtly suggestive is avoided. Yet sly reverences to Lucio Fontana, Yves Klein and Mark Rothko can be found.

Each “painting” is a cast plastic replica of an original acrylic and canvas prototype. This original prototype is destroyed as part of the working process. Evidence of this prototype can be seen in particular surface and shape irregularities that are repeated in each casting. Mr. Tallman’s rabbit hole is found in the physical properties of plastic and subverting conventional expectations that come when viewing “a painting”.

After an extended period of living in Asia, Mr. Tallman returned to the United States in 2005. Since that time he has participated in exhibitions in Sydney, Amsterdam, Paris, Nashville and Philadelphia. He is part of the international post formalist movement spearheaded by such DYI groups such as Minus Space, the Center for Contemporary Non-Objective Art, IS Projects and Paris Concret. Mr. Tallman received his formal training Painting at Tyler School of Art and the University of Washington. The art and ideas of the conceptual artist Luis Camnitzer have also had an influence, having worked with Mr. Camnitzer on the 2007 Drawing Center Exhibit, Non-Declarative Art. Mr. Tallman splits his time living and working between suburban Philadelphia and Lookout Mountain, Tennessee.