Stanley Casselman and Hallie Hart “Two Doors Down”

Chase Contemporary (521 W23rd St.)

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Stanley Casselman’s “Liquid” paintings specifically are acrylic on polyester screen and then sprayed with silver nitrate. The process of applying the silver nitrate is called spray chrome. Silver nitrate is what’s on the back of a mirror. The influence for using the process came from two other artists, Jason Martin and Anselm Reyle who’ve been incorporating it into their practices for about half a dozen years.

The type of work that Hallie Hart is displaying is abstract expressionism.

“The twist is that I stain unprimed canvases with only the use of my hands, leaving each piece with a common thread, that of a three-dimensional feel with a soft elegance,” said Hallie Hart.

Stanley Casselman is a mid-career New York artist whose richly textured paintings subtly reference the history of abstraction. His works often self-consciously appropriate the signature styles of twentieth and twenty-first century artists from Mark Rothko to Gerhard Richter, while at the same time introducing novel techniques and procedures that expand the discourse and material possibilities of contemporary painting.

Hallie Hart is an American abstract expressionist painter raised in New York City. Aligning with Pollock in his conceptual and physical approach to picture making, Hart has always chosen to be over her work to have a wide angle view of the overall painting and to continuously be able to work around it on the floor. However, instead of Pollock’s use of sticks and brushes to drip paint, Hart uses only her hands to manipulate, flick, splatter or throw paint. Further defining Hart’s unique practice is her use of catwalks, some spanning eight meters in order to physically get over or into the middle of her pieces.