“Color Connection” Exhibition

440 Gallery

poster for “Color Connection” Exhibition

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Imaginative, almost other-worldly shapes and juxtapositions are explored through a variety of media in the Project Space. Color adds a further layer of expression… bold and unabashed. The ‘signs of our times’ have fueled each of these artists in different ways, and the results show how they make meaning—connection— through their art, as expressed in their statements below.

Ellen Chuse: “Over the past few years my work has focused on dark orbs on grounds of saturated color in a series called Dark Matter. In time, these images evolved from a sense of foreboding to a place of meditation. In these three paintings from 2019 I experimented with possibilities of color and composition using similar forms but with a different focus. The paintings are acrylic on paper and I am showing them unframed to highlight the texture of the materials. As always, I’m engaged with the emotional resonance of color and certain timeless forms that allow each viewer to bring their own experience to the work.”

Fred Bendheim: “For the past few years I have been making relief sculptures out of wood, PVC board and found objects with figurative elements. This current use of figures is counter to the arc of my development as an abstract artist. Early on in my work, I made figurative paintings and sculpture. The work has slowly evolved to pure abstractions over the past twenty years. I view the recent figures as different from the early figures: now they are a progression on abstraction, or to put it in another way, the works are abstractions, but with figures. The figures are either from trophies, referring to sports and actions, or they are from classical sculptures or religious icons referring to stillness and meditation. Circles are a recurring form, similar to the circularity in my work from figuration to abstraction and back again. Circles are also referring to the cycles of nature, seasons, orbits of the planets and life cycles.”

Richard Barnet “My recent works on paper are energetic statements that are an outcome of my strong emotional responses to the complexities of the world today. In the three drawings and watercolors I’m allowing my attitude toward global ecological destruction, the current state of politics in our country, the blatant cruelty of racism, to come across in my work that is constructed out of sadness and outrage.”

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from September 09, 2020 to October 11, 2020

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