Jason Craighead and Michael Kessler “Shifting Process”

Cheryl Hazan Gallery

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Personal histories, voyages, and discoveries are transported and communicated through process, mark making, and visceral expression in the work of Michael Kessler and Jason Craighead. Both artists offer a transparent view of their journey as their paintings become. Select areas of intended color combine with palettes inspired by nature. Activated compositions pulsate with energy yet are grounded with structure, line, and open space.

Michael Kessler’s acrylic on panel paintings utilize numerous translucent and transparent layers to crystallize his abstract, gestural, and geometric configurations. With a meditative focus, he pours, scrapes, smooths, tapes, and sands the paint to reveal biomorphic entities. Kessler draws from his connection to the New Mexican landscape, branches, leaves, and trees. In his Sundried series, a wholeness is achieved through his integration of nature and structure – cellular, organic forms are contained and revealed through soft cream and bright golden segments.

Traces of hands, smears, and marks become excavations in Jason Craighead’s conceptual and poetic mixed media paintings. Drop cloths in his studio catch action, movement, and play that metamorphose beautifully into energetic arrangements. Kinetic marks express self discovery, renewal, and personal truths. Foot and hand prints, hidden words, explosive scribbles are all able to breathe in the open space of the canvas. Craighead’s rawness and expression can be compared to the expressionistic gesture painters of the mid 20th Century, such as Cy Twombly.

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from September 04, 2014 to October 04, 2014

Opening Reception on 2014-09-10 from 18:00 to 20:00

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