Sharon Brant "Sideswiped"

Minus Space

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MINUS SPACE announces the exhibition Sharon Brant: Sideswiped. This is the Beacon, New York-based artist's first solo exhibition with the gallery and it will feature a suite of new paintings and works on paper.

For the past four decades, Sharon Brant has produced conceptually and aesthetically rigorous hard-edged paintings and drawings that commonly blur the lines between media - paintings are frequently drawn with graphite or pastel, extend outward from the wall into sculptural relief, or are mounted into complex, layered works on paper.

For her exhibition Sideswiped, Brant investigates new territory that shifts away from the ruled, geometric forms of her previous work. Her new paintings and works on paper present a single, animated rectangle, often thicker on the top and bottom and narrower on the sides, which sits slightly off-center at the bottom edge of the canvas or paper support. Rendered primarily in cadmium red light, as well as other hues and values of red on a white ground, Brant's new work employs a remarkably narrow palette to explore an elemental form through a wide array of cumulative marks and subtle gestures. Her new work continues to distill and evidence her exhaustive understanding of materials and a masterful resourcefulness with each. On view are works made of oil, oil stick, alkyd, acrylic, pastel, ink, and crayon on canvas, watercolor paper, and newsprint.

In his catalog essay, artist, writer, and curator Stephen Westfall observes "Brant has delighted over the years in stretching the rectangle and opening its interior so that it undermines the authority of monumental Minimalism. Her new paintings go farther, they turn the rectangle and square into cyphers of the human figure and they do so not by constructing a geometric mask, but by loosening up the line so that form bends and sways a bit like a sentient being reacting to its environment."

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Schedule

from November 09, 2012 to December 22, 2012

Opening Reception on 2012-11-09 from 18:00 to 20:00

Artist(s)

Sharon Brant

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