NYAB Event - Kate Eric "Ripped Seam and Other Delights"

Kate Eric "Ripped Seam and Other Delights"

Leila Heller Gallery (Chelsea)

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“Their painted forms overlap and intrude and over the course of days and weeks a kind of frustration gives rise to the inexorable painted macrocosm. What began as a conversation methodically becomes noisier, more intense. An argument in paint.” —Doug McClemont

The husband and wife team takes turns painting layer upon layer of vibrant jewel-toned colors to create fantastical and dynamic large-scale paintings. These nature-inspired works transport the viewer to a surreal universe inspired by insects, volcanoes, sandstorms, dark galaxies, and the deep blue sea filled with flourishing algae and coral.

Kate Eric have collaborated since 2000, using their collective imaginations to produce magnificent and stimulating paintings. Over the years the subjects of their pieces have gradually shifted from dreamlike human and animal figures to ethereal molecular shapes. In this interconnected artistic relationship, the duo paint separately on large-scale canvases and work off of each others' progress in layers of trailing color and movement.

Since their earliest collaborations, their works have inhabited an uneasy, yet organic, realm. In their most recent series, Kate Eric depict the constant interplay between light and dark matter through images of slow morphing figures in a vast and cosmic environment. These representations reflect the artists' academic backgrounds in Science and Philosophy. Delicate, somber, and distorted shapes dwell in apparent stillness yet gradually move throughout Tedman and Siemens' imagined cosmos. The particles of tissue seemingly float into oblivion, but are in fact interwoven in unfolding stories that span multiple canvases.