Adam Henry "In Spec­tral Form"

Joe Sheftel Gallery

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Joe Shef­tel Gallery announces In Spec­tral Form, the first New York solo exhi­bi­tion by Adam Henry. Henry inves­ti­gates the basic logic of paint­ing by reorder­ing its ele­ments: he fuses color, splices can­vas, and folds paint­ing sur­faces. His exper­i­ments with spec­tral arrays and intri­cate paths con­jure philoso­phies of space, ancient tex­tiles, and new tech­nolo­gies.

Just as a spec­trum forms when light is dis­persed, Henry’s emul­sion paint­ings dis­play bands of color mov­ing as forces through the spec­trum of red to vio­let. When red and blue meet a vio­let haze forms; oppo­sites yel­low and vio­let col­lide and dis­si­pate, cre­at­ing the lim­i­nal state D.H. Lawrence calls “good obliv­ion.” Henry’s wet-into-wet tech­nique cap­tures the alchemy of col­ors’ inter­ac­tions.

Through­out Henry’s paint­ings, the con­cept of spec­trum struc­tures a vari­able uni­verse. Henry also explores painting’s forms by incre­men­tally com­press­ing and inter­min­gling paint, ground, and sup­port­ing fab­ric. In the Path paint­ings, indi­vid­ual drops of paint are care­fully laid into the open weave of jute, giv­ing the effect of fab­ric being pulled apart, allow­ing the front and back of the paint­ing sur­face to be viewed simul­ta­ne­ously. The drops of paint cre­ate a con­tin­u­ous line loop, tra­vers­ing the very struc­ture of the weave. Other paint­ings are phys­i­cally woven, turn­ing inside out as strips cut from the sur­face fold back in on itself. Uti­liz­ing recur­ring shapes and forms, Henry cre­ates door­ways for the viewer to enter his work, reveal­ing and expli­cat­ing hid­den anom­alies in the mechan­ics of per­cep­tion.

A woven blan­ket, clan­des­tine dia­grams, beams of col­ored light, blind spots, and embed­ded codes: his repeated pat­terns dis­play how small vari­a­tions cre­ate entry to many cog­ni­tive loca­tions.

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Schedule

from May 02, 2012 to June 17, 2012

Opening Reception on 2012-05-06 from 18:00 to 20:00

Artist(s)

Adam Henry

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