NYAB Event - Hannah Cole and Nicole Stone "Two Way Street"

Hannah Cole and Nicole Stone "Two Way Street"

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In her paintings, Hannah Cole invites the viewer to rediscover his/her own surroundings filtered through the artist's own emotional prism. Taking randomly observed fragments of the urban environment, she composes works that flirt with the history of American abstract painting. Critic Cate McQuaid describes Cole as " a painter with a sharp visual curiosity and a perfectionist’s dedication to technique."
“I compose tight abstractions from fragments of the city that normally go unnoticed. I select traces of a human hand in the grey grids of the city; the wobble of a tag or a trowel mark, or a history of notes left for the UPS man. These moments of carelessness I translate into paint with immense care. It is a devotional act. A meditation.”

Nicole Stone creates surfaces that vibrate with energy. She materializes subtle gestures into dynamic, multi-dimensional forms that derive power from layers of meanings and elegantly suggested ramifications. With sensibility and exquisite craftsmanship, Nicole “endows” her work with various entry points inviting the viewer to create narratives for her intriguing pieces.
“Six Inches features hand painted images on large plywood sculptures and a repeating text border on the wall beyond. Apparently unrelated recognizable objects like a crashed truck, a mushroom, and a Lego ball, are painted in digitized marks in black and white gouache on plywood. A Google image search using the phrase “six inches” as the keyword provides image content and a central theme.

Media

• Painting
• Sculpture

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