"Alter Minimal – Lexicon Series Vol. 1" Exhibition
Parallel Art Space
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Parallel Art Space, formerly Camel Art Space, presents it’s inaugural exhibition, Alter Minimal – Lexicon Series Vol. 1. This group show is the first in the Lexicon series; a series which explores the notion that artist’s, while retaining unique and personal vantage points with regard to their craft, often employ overlapping formal styles and/or aesthetic concerns. As the title Alter Minimal suggests, we are examining works from artists, Clinton King, Lance Lankford, Gary Petersen, Suzanne Stroebe, and Andrew Zarou, who engage, to varying degrees, the multiple facets of a minimalist approach.
Alter Minimal – Lexicon Series Vol. 1 brings together the work of five artists, working in a variety of visual media, who are all variously engaged with the aesthetic forms and preoccupations of the minimal and post-minimal movements, toward the realization of their own artistic ends. Minimalism as an art movement is now generally understood to have emerged from (and as a reaction to) Abstract Expressionism. Moving away from expression as ultimate end goal, Minimalist artists pursued integrity in their work by attempting to free its’ constitution of any non-essential elements, a visual quest for the reductive prime. Post-minimal artists carried this movement further by liberating Minimalist structure from requisite right angles and obligatory line, creating space for a more feral, yet still pared down, essential form. The artists of Alter Minimal move freely throughout these concerns, utilizing vocabulary and sign as they see fit. From the gestural economy of Clinton King’s paintings, to the poetic, humanist sculptural extensions of artists Lance Lankford and Suzanne Stroebe to the syncopated, angular and sometimes humorous compositions of Gary Petersen and Andrew Zarou; these artists accomplish much with a concerted little.
[Image: Clinton King "Forums" (2011) printed paper, 36 x 36 in.]
Media
Schedule
from April 14, 2012 to May 20, 2012
Opening Reception on 2012-04-14 from 18:00 to 21:00
Artist(s)
Clinton King, Lance Lankford, Gary Petersen, Suzanne Stroebe, Andrew Zarou