Kendall Shaw “WALL SPACE”

Van Der Plas Gallery

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The walls of the Van der Plas Gallery, 156 Orchard St., Manhattan, will merge into a New Orleans Mardi Gras of Dionysian color, joy and emotion, and a celebration of this joyful spring awakening, when New Orleans-born artist Kendall Shaw’s new Cajun Minimal works assault the sad grays of Lent and 1970s gray panel minimalism.

Shaw, a figure in the New York art scene for over half a century, is known for his expansive use of color to express emotion and his use of color in rhythms and patterns, creating an effect of vibrating energy. Educated in science, he sees objects and light as energy in space. His latest work consists of color panels arranged to include wall space as part of the painting rather than seeing the painting as a decorative object hanging from a wall. This extends Mr. Shaw’s pioneer work of color drenched panels in brightly contrasting colors that defined shapes of wall space that first showed at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery in 1968. He also presented major works in this field at Robert M. Murdock’s ground-breaking Modular Painting exhibit at the Albright Knox Gallery in 1970, and once more at de Nagy last year..

His Cajun Minimal family paintings use panels of different heights and colors to convey groupings and relations between family members in the Bayou country, based on Le Corbusier’s adult human module of 8’2”, adjusted downward for children and adolescents. Color and spacing replace any figuration, leaving the viewer with a direct emotional impact free of any other visual suggestions.

Mr. Shaw, a student and friend of both Mark Rothko and Stuart Davis, is a believer in the power of painting. One of the founding artists of the Pattern-and-Decoration movement, his pattern paintings echoed universal and energy rhythms. In thosepaintings a generous use of blending and contrasting rhythmic color patterns indicated his “Apollonian” side and his Pollock-like slashes of thrown color across these grids showed his “Dionysian” side.

Shaw is as vigorous as ever. The Gallery show will open on his 92nd birthday. He has shown in New York City consistently in group exhibitions or solo shows since the 1950s. Kendall Shaw’s “Collective Energy - Sacred and Profane” Feb 2nd - Feb 27th 2016 recently was featured at the National Arts Club. “Energy in Space, 50 Years” http://www.spenceprojects.com/inner/shaw.html is on view at The Gallery at One Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn and runs until May 24, 2016.

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Schedule

from March 30, 2016 to April 24, 2016

Opening Reception on 2016-03-30 from 18:00 to 20:00

Artist(s)

Kendall Shaw

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