Kylie Heidenheimer "Rift"
532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel
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532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel presents a solo show of recent abstract paintings by Kylie Heidenheimer. On single, dyptich and tryptich canvases ranging from three to four feet square, the artist skillfully blends open, evanescent spaces with gutsy, tactile passages celebrating the materiality of paint itself. In these visceral works, washes of acrylic paint puddle and pool; thick splashes and blobs might impose themselves, or break apart and scatter like clouds. Throughout her investigations, the artist is guided by her fascination with the dual nature of the painted surface: repository of matter and metaphor of space.
The title of the exhibition -- RIFT -- places particular emphasis on the paintings' structural underpinnings. Space twists: figure and ground conflate and separate. In places, front and back meld like a Mobius strip. Suggestions of subject matter - Americana, natural phenomena, cosmology, weather maps, calligraphy and the primordial - seem to blend at junctures, becoming traces of their former selves. In this connection, Stephen Maine writes: “Pictorial fact is implied rather than stated, tapping into the part of the viewer's brain engaged with becoming rather than being. The opposite of illustration, [Heidenheimer's] work pursues the phantom image.
[Image: Kylie Heidenheimer, "Port" (2009). acrylic on canvas, 38"x38"]
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Schedule
from September 10, 2009 to October 17, 2009
Opening Reception on 2009-09-10 from 18:00 to 21:00