Garth Weiser Exhibition

Casey Kaplan

poster for Garth Weiser Exhibition

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Casey Kaplan announces a new series of work by New York based artist, Garth Weiser. For the first time, the artist will take over the full space of the gallery with a viscerally compelling body of paintings. Expanding upon theunderlying use of the grid throughout the history of painting and architecture, Garth Weiser's artworks challenge the nature of perception by continually questioning the process of applying paint to a canvas.
Since 2005, Weiser's practice has involved an intense exploration of medium, color, and space through a masterful application of contemporary mark making. In this exhibition, Weiser moves further toward geometric abstraction from the figural representation of a head and torso that underlie the structure of the paintings in his first exhibition at the gallery in October of 2007. Layers upon layers are applied, areas are taped off, and paint becomes textured by airbrush, splatter, wax paper, and heavily combed surfaces through the use of brush and putty knife. The texture is further contrasted by varying methods of paint including acrylic, gouache, tempera, and graphite. In Weiser’s abstractions, Western devices are implied with the consistent use of a horizon line. Luminous circles evoke eyes, as they are transformed into gray and brown scale color wheels, oceanic whirls, pentagons, and stars.

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Schedule

from February 12, 2009 to March 21, 2009

Artist(s)

Garth Weiser

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