John McCracken / Daniel Turner
Franklin Parrasch Gallery (548 W 22nd St)
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Franklin Parrasch Gallery is the latest in a series of two-artist, cross-generational exhibitions. Daniel Turner’s work "Untitled (9/2/2012)" comprises eight sheets of auto-grade glass framed in rubber moulding and stacked in two sections along the wall, with the final pane positioned slightly off-axis. Though independently the glass may appear nearly translucent, when layered upon one another the slight pigmentation inherent to the panes becomes more concentrated, settling into a subtle and translucent jade. This raw material is simultaneously image and architectonic dissention. Turner’s work often addresses the relationship between poles; in this instance, perhaps between liquid and solid (molten material into hard glass), opacity and translucency, pigmentation and absence of color, seamlessness and disjointedness, inherent and introduced.
Also on view is a black plank from John McCracken’s seminal series. This meticulously constructed fiberglass and plywood form, with a luminous and highly polished resin surface, embodies purity and perfection by way of proportion and pigmentation. The plank form – an architectural curiosity of its own – is dependent upon but separate from both wall and floor; in her essay dating from 2011, Andrea Bellini writes, “At once serial and unique…[the work] is no longer just a sculpture or a painting, but both of those things together….” "Black Plan"k inhabits the gallery emitting a highly concentrated and precisely calculated energy as it draws from its surroundings.
[Image: Daniel Turner "Untitled (9/2/2012)" (2012) UV tinted glass, rubber 60 x 96 x 2.75 in.]
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from September 06, 2012 to October 20, 2012