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