Ryan Cobourn "Crazy Nature"
Fischbach Gallery
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Cobourn has an accomplished history in photography, but he does not use photographs in any part of his artistic process, citing the disassociating consequences that come with lens and digital mediation. Typically, Cobourn sketches en plein air and then constructs large paintings in the studio in an attempt to recreate the immediacy of the primary experience, highlighting the double meaning of the word ‘drawing.’ This technique brings the viewer as close as possible to the picture plane taking the viewer away from the objects to feel the wind, the warmth of the sun, and the light that is captured on the landscapes. “Painting is about what happens between us and the world, the in-between. If it doesn’t, it’s important to just scrape it down and start all over again” –Cobourn 2012
Crazy Nature features vibrant landscapes with flowers, fields, and trees thickly splashed and spattered with contrasting hues that imply movement and the climactic, transitory character of flowers and foliage at the height of their bloom. These are active pictures with bold brushstrokes, scraping, scumbling, dabbing, blotting, adding, subtracting, erasing, and layering to build the final image. The results can appear wildly abstract, while coming into layered focus as the viewer recedes. Cobourn’s works are at once physically exhilarating and dream-like as if their specific subjects are uprooted and unleashed from their landscape sources, depicting natural sensations of shifting climate and light, mediated by the artist’s subjective emotion, thus creating works that explores a personalized vision that incorporates elements of Abstraction, Impressionism, and Romanticism simultaneously.
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Schedule
from April 26, 2012 to May 26, 2012
Opening Reception on 2012-04-26 from 17:00 to 19:00