Devin Powers "Devin Powers, Paintings"
Lesley Heller Workspace
This event has ended.
Lesley Heller Workspace presents the paintings of Devin Powers in his first gallery solo exhibition in New York City. Powers explores forms drawn from unusual geometries. He follows the nature of these spaces as well as contradicts them, creating a vibrant dissonance within the order of the composition. Powers gives equal weight to the content embedded in the paintings and the structures that elicit them.
In the painting Path, the space feels architectural, evoking the ribs of a vaulted cathedral. In other works, such as the recent painting Storm, the lines seem to be in motion; the dense, layered network manages to summon the drama of action painting. The color and the scraped traces present in the works add to this energy.
Powers enjoys the “grit and smudge” of his handmade process. It is a metaphor for “how this Apollonian or Platonic mathematical world brushes against our messy reality.” The patterns he makes have no fixed answer, yet they evoke a semblance of infinity - for Powers, painting is about discovery.
Media
Schedule
from October 24, 2012 to November 25, 2012
Opening Reception on 2012-10-24 from 18:00 to 20:00