“Ar•chi•tec•ton•ic” Exhibition
Site 109
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The Cynthia Corbett Gallery (London) presents the show, ar•chi•tec•ton•ic, which features the works of Painter Andy Burgess & Photographer Tom Leighton. Their use of architectural lines and vibrant colours create a wonderful dialogue between these two artists.
Burgess and Leighton are represented by British gallery Cynthia Corbett; ar•chi•tec•ton•ic is their first joint exhibition in New York, taking place in the Lower East Side’s Site/109, a pop-up events and exhibitions space.
Burgess is completing a suite of gouache studies, which span his subject matter over the last ten years. There will be studies of the Brooklyn Bridge, a favorite subject and one frequently returned to, rendered in a patchwork of color. There will also be a series of studies of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Guggenheim Museum, whose sinuous curves remain alluring and wondrous to this day. Finally, some surprises relating specifically to early modernist architecture in New York, such as the William Lescaze House in Midtown Manhattan, a striking white concrete and glass brick dwelling nestled in amongst the brownstones, that dates back to 1934 and is possibly the first modernist residence in New York! Among the canvases will be two new richly colored and painterly oils of Palm Springs mid-century architecture and a signature painting of the famous Stahl House in the Los Angeles hills; a mid-century masterpiece. It’s cool minimalism, clean lines, glass and steel structure is rendered in abstract terms like a Mondrian painting.
Leighton will present a new series of crafted photographs which reveal the poetic beauty that can result from painstaking digital manipulation. Leighton has travelled through Europe, Asia and North America, building up an impressive body of photographic images that he then combines to make fantastical landscapes. Leighton is from a new group of photographers who specialize in digital & manual photo manipulation, his work celebrates our landscapes and the buildings within which reflect our past, present and futures. The Photography of Tom Leighton has been compared to the work of German photographer Andreas Gursky.
[Image: Tom Leighton. 7th Avenue. Edition of 5, C-Type Print / Perspex & Aluminium mounted, 48 x 48 in. 2013.]
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Schedule
from May 01, 2014 to May 31, 2014