Douglas Wirls "Terrains"

The Painting Center

poster for Douglas Wirls "Terrains"

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The Painting Center presents an exhibition of recent work by Douglas
Wirls to take place in the Project Room beginning on October 5, 2010. This show, his third at the Painting Center, will present a selection from a series of new works on paper collectively titled “Terrains.”

The calligraphic drawings of Douglas Wirls are evocations of natural forces rather than depictions of nature. Characterized by a meticulous, delicate and gestural line, their rhythmic yet meandering compositions recall the brushwork of Chinese landscape painting. In these works executed in colored chalk, sumi ink and charcoal, on paper and drafting film, layers of eddying lines are raked and inscribed, creating continuous horizontal fields that swirl and seethe, extending into an indeterminate space, never reaching a horizon. Their surfaces are restless, at points nearly erupting into quiet violence. Yet, however spatial, Wirls’ works are not purely landscapes. The intricate choreography of his marks take on a life and order of their own. It is through the attraction of familiar references to nature, form and surface that the viewer is drawn to an
appreciation of these energetic, enigmatic places.

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Schedule

from October 05, 2010 to October 30, 2010

Opening Reception on 2010-10-07 from 18:00 to 20:00

Artist(s)

Douglas Wirls

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