Eric Blum “New Paintings”

Kathryn Markel Fine Arts

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[Image: Eric Blum "Untitled No. 758"]

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Kathryn Markel Fine Arts presents New Paintings, Eric Blum’s second solo exhibition with the gallery.

Eric Blum’s layered arrangements of ink-washed, wax-infused silk are rooted in modern painting techniques yet activated by the experimental manipulation of his media.

Blum bypasses conscious decisions by blindly selecting his initial guidelines from random sources. The first layers are put through a process of rotating and flipping, covering and uncovering, excising and splicing as he permits the forms to settle into something of their own creation. As he stretches the silk across the plane, he searches for unexpected juxtapositions and an awkward harmony as the original elements are reordered into a visual anagram. The work transforms into something foreign, no longer resembling his own preconceived ideas.

The ambiguity of Blum’s references and the elusiveness of his narrative is beguiling. It courts the edges of recognition and expands the possibilities of interpretation. There is a subtly menacing undercurrent to the work, yet the fluidity and refinement of the silk offers a sense of serenity. The clashing and emulsification of these differing natures is both poetic and unnerving in its unpredictability.

Eric Blum has received grants from the New York Foundation of the Arts and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. He has exhibited with galleries around the world and has been featured in shows at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, the Knoxville Art Museum, and The Contemporary Art Center of Cincinnati, among other institutions. Blum studied at UCLA and Central St. Martins, and currently lives and works in New York City.

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Schedule

from June 23, 2016 to July 30, 2016

Opening Reception on 2016-06-23 from 18:00 to 20:00

Artist(s)

Eric Blum

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