“Shaping” and “Still Life” Exhibitions

“Shaping” and “Still Life” Exhibitions

Kathryn Markel Fine Arts

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Daniel Brice’s “Still Life” consists of nine paintings of the same image: a Polaroid photograph of three flowers in a vase. The image serves as an armature for different color and surface combinations. Preserving the image in this body of work reveals his adherence to the exercise in seeing, and the repetition acknowledges the endless variations of the same thing and the challenge of conveying that. Since the camera was invented over 170 years ago, historians periodically claim the “death of Painting.” Brice’s polaroid paintings say, “hold up, there is way more to this.”

“Shaping” features six artists who are “shapers”, that is, engaged in the uninterrupted activity of shaping. They embrace the inherent uncertainty of the process, exploring tenuous relations and contrasts of medium, surface, color, and physicality. As individual artists, they share a strong affinity for the metaphoric potency of abstraction and the power of the charged object. Their constant conviction is to the necessity of giving shape. This exhibition includes works by curator Suzanne Laura Kammin, Steven Alexander, Jeff Conefry, Deb Covell, Russell Floersch, and Cecilia Vissers.

Media

• Painting

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