Will Hutnick and Jeanne Wilkinson Exhibition
Trestle Gallery (at Brooklyn Art Space)
This event has ended.
Trestle presents Will Hutnick’s abstract paintings and Jeanne Wilkinson’s photographs and video installation.
Will Hutnick’s energetic abstract paintings utilize tape, spray paint, ink, acrylic and oil as he simultaneously plays with large, sweeping gestures and minute details. His process is spontaneous, expressive and performative. Often his paintings are finished in one sitting. As he states, the process is “an event, a challenge, an experience.” Trestle explores the dialogue between the surprises that arise from his process and the permanence of the tangible results in his work.
Jeanne Wilkinson is formerly an abstract painter who now incorporates her paintings and drawings in animated short films. Her most recent video installation, The Sun and the Horn, celebrates the 2013 Summer Solstice— which coincides with the date of the exhibition’s opening reception. With multiple projectors and translucent scrims, Wilkinson’s figurative, abstract, and kaleidoscopic imagery envelops viewers as they interact with the installation. Adding to the installation’s collaborative and interactive qualities, the audience is invited to bring headdresses or masks or wear those provided by Wilkinson as they walk between the scrims. She will be filming the activities and subsequently make a short film, adding another layer to the experience.
Trestle is also presenting prints of digital collages from Wilkinson’s images already taken of the “Solstice” installation, some in the form of hanging cloth scrolls. One depicts figures in masks representing the elements of Earth, Air, Water and Fire.
Media
Schedule
from June 21, 2013 to July 12, 2013
Opening Reception on 2013-06-21 from 19:00 to 21:00