NYAB Event - Mark Dagley "Structural Solutions"

Mark Dagley "Structural Solutions"

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MINUS SPACE announces the exhibition Mark Dagley: Structural Solutions, the artist's first solo exhibition of new paintings in New York City in 15 years. The exhibition will feature three oversized paintings - the artist's largest works created to-date - which will be exhibited on flat aluminum blocks on the floor and leaned against the gallery walls. The three paintings include one matte red and black scalene triangle, one prismatic stained grid, and one pale yellow and blue striped rectangle with notched L-shaped holes.

Over the past three decades, Mark Dagley has developed a diverse and probing painting practice dictated by sequences and systems. Foregrounding structural investigation over optical effects, he states, "As far as my work is concerned, I prefer the term systematic painting. The opticality is just the sexy part, the by-product of the real issue at hand, which is structure."

Eschewing the contraints of a signature personal style, Dagley's interest lies rather in the exploration of abstraction's myriad options. This has led to the development of divergent bodies of work, including monochromes, grids, checkers, dots, orbs, stripes, tapered lines, and wave forms, which are put to use both individually and in various combinations. Dagley also varies the surfaces in his paintings, which includes raw canvas, stains, pours, impastoed areas, hard edges, and gestural brushmarks. Regarding his practice he continues, "The material qualities of paint and its application are perfunctory for me. I really want an impersonal look, but paradoxically, I want to achieve it painting by hand."