NYAB Event - Eve Aschheim "New Work"

Eve Aschheim "New Work"

Lori Bookstein Fine Art

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Lori Bookstein Fine Art presents an exhibition of Eve Aschheim’s new oil paintings, in a marked departure from, as well as a continuation of, her earlier work. In her second solo show with the gallery, Aschheim exhibits color paintings for the first time in New York.

Aschheim continues to work improvisationally, painting and repainting, in order to invent energetic new pictorial constructions that have no preconceived organizational principle. She uses a geometric vocabulary of planes and lines, but subverts its conventions until aberrant lines create virtual forms and recombinatory possibilities. Whereas the artist previously worked with a deliberately reduced color palette, in these new paintings an unpredictable range of color is used with a freedom and inventiveness that is characteristic of her pictorial constructions. In each painting Aschheim arrives at a different and particular resolution.

Color planes engage linear networks that seem to be in a state of motion. Everything coheres, comes apart, and reconfigures. Subtle drawing contrasts with bold swaths of color. The painting is a contested ground in which the artist contrasts, intersects, and overlaps different kinds of spaces. Expansive, fractured, and compressed spaces and planes meet, as if in a heated debate.

One of the signature features of Aschheim’s recent work is her ability to keep everything in a state of flux that is at once fragile and bold. Working in a modest scale, she fills her paintings with a hard-earned visual complexity that is rare among contemporary painters.

Eve Aschheim received her BA from the University of California, Berkeley and her MFA from the University of California, Davis. Since 2003, Aschheim has been Senior Lecturer in Visual Arts at Princeton University.