Philip Taaffe Exhibition
Luhring Augustine Bushwick
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Luhring Augustine announces an exhibition of recent work by Philip Taaffe. The exhibition, the artist’s second solo show with the gallery, continues to reveal Taaffe as an alchemist of form, process, and imagery, while remaining a thoroughly modern painter of complex and thought-provoking paintings.
Taaffe’s work is known for its masterful synthesis of processes and techniques; silkscreens, stencils, collage, marbling, staining, and many other modes of picture-making are all interwoven by the artist into richly complex and highly meditative canvases. Similarly, his employment of an encyclopedic range of imagery results in works that, while resolved, are impossible for the viewer to pin down and decode. Taaffe strives for an optical vibrancy and visual energy that integrate the decorative with the narrative, the natural with the man-made, the ancient with the modern – entwining cultural lineages and histories to create something authentically new from these interwoven sources.
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Schedule
from January 17, 2015 to April 26, 2015
Opening Reception on 2015-01-16 from 18:00 to 20:00