NYAB Event - Myron Polenberg “PLEASURE+PAIN”

Myron Polenberg “PLEASURE+PAIN”

Van Der Plas Gallery

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Van Der Plas Gallery presents a solo exhibition entitled PLEASURE+PAIN, a series of new works by painter, Myron Polenberg. The Artist’s Reception will be held on Thursday September 12th from 6:00-8:00pm.

For the exhibition PLEASURE+PAIN Van Der Plas & Polenberg carefully selected new works from several diverse series of paintings,The Nudes, The Barbed Wires and The Kinetic Lines. Shown together for the ﬁrst time, the exhibition juxtaposes the conﬂicting themes of human sensuality, suffering and joy that inform much of Polenberg’s work.

The Nudes are lush, large-scale, black & white paintings rendered with massive strokes of thick paint that suggest the most intimate parts of the female form and bring to mind the hypocrisy of viewing nudity as an obscenity and accepting violence as the norm. They measure 64”x 52”.

The 7’x7’ Barbed Wire paintings depict a single, dark, jagged barb that ﬁlls most of the picture plane against a stark background. The paintings of the inherently violent objects are both repellant and beautiful.

In The Kinetic Line paintings the black horizontal lines pulse back and forth across the canvas, evoking static noise, wasted energy, incoherent sounds — “like all the unseen and unheard, voiceless people,” says Polenberg. They range in size from 48 x 38” to 60”x 86”. Polenberg rarely uses traditional artists’ tools, preferring laborer’s tools such as taping knives, masons’ and plasterers’ trowels, and 2”x4”s, which he uses to push the paint across the canvas, layer upon layer.

Myron Polenberg is a studio artist whose works have been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions. Polenberg’s paintings are also in private collections in New York, East Hampton, Hudson, Princeton, Palm Beach, Old Westbury, Dallas, and Hollywood.