An Hoang and Andy Mister “Shifting Terrain”
Turn Gallery
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Turn Gallery presents Shifting Terrain, a two person exhibit featuring work by An Hoang and Andy Mister.
Flawed or idealized, deconstructed or reconstructed, both artists explore traces and memories of landscape, yet reveal distinct alternative realities. While An Hoang’s abstract paintings suggest a felt experience, Andy’s photorealistic drawings take us into the realm of hyperreality.
An Hoang’s paintings reference her fleeting memories of nature and the urban landscape. In Shifting Terrain, Hoang’s canvases are enveloped in oils of smoky lavenders, chilled grays and luminous pinks, capturing the poetic wandering of our senses. Her intuitive marks are brushed and smeared on, scraped and wiped off, and built up in layers, until a lush surface reveals itself. The quiet harmonies of nature’s twilight colors are offset by flares of bold or vibrant color which lure the viewer into her mysterious and fluid abstractions. Evoking a tangible echo of memory, the spirit of the place within Hoang’s paintings feels familiar while remaining abstract and elusive.
An Hoang has exhibited at Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY; Livingstone Gallery, The Hague, Netherlands; Susan Inglett Gallery, NY, NY; KiddYellin, Brooklyn, NY; The Islip Art Museum, Islip, NY. An Hoang works in Brooklyn, NY.
Andy Mister’s work investigates the boundary between mechanical and manual reproduction. Mister explores how meaning is created or lost through copying using either a photocopier or working by hand. His current focus is on landscapes which is a departure from the historical images of conflict and revolt found in previous works. In Mister’s Shifting Terrain exhibition we see the underlying aesthetic of his earlier work, but with a fantastical joy that is immediately accessible to the viewer. His source images are pre-1950 photography which add a more painterly look. Mister mounts his drawings to panels instead of framing, accentuating his hyperreality experience. Traces of his own hand are visible throughout the drawings, as are traces of the materials he uses to create them – acrylic, charcoal, carbon pencil – but he hews closely to the original image to make the viewer pause and wonder…are they drawings…a painting…or a print? Mister calls his works “compilations” – a compelling visual mix tape.
Andy Mister’s work has been exhibited in New York at Hirschl & Adler Modern, Morgan Lehman Gallery, 99 Cent Plus, Dieu Donné, and Lesley Heller Workspace, and at the Geoffrey Young Gallery, MA. Mister lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
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Schedule
from October 26, 2016 to December 18, 2016