"Geometric Days" Exhibition
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"Geometric Days" is an exhibition of new paintings by eight artists whose deployment of geometry exposes organizational structures from microscopic, political, and spiritual dimensions. Geometry, abstraction and painting are ingrained in our interpretation of experience—geometry as measurement of space and time, abstraction as poetic expression of the visual, and painting as the manifestation of a will to communicate.
These artists propose that geometry isn’t necessarily abstract, but that it is actually a form of reality. Their hand-crafted, anarchic/controlled forms undercut geometric abstraction’s historical ties to utopian idealism. The works calls upon mathematics as a spiritual force (and geometry as its visual realization) that codes the experiences of nature, built environments, social constructs, and the digital world. Artist/Curator Papo Colo states, For these artists geometry is more than a combination of lines. The nature of images are mathematical. Geometry divides borders, topography and climate. This labyrinth of numbers and forms, construct the world in a rational way but also transforms surfaces/images into spiritual substances that take you to a space of esoteric solutions.
Curated by Papo Colo and Jeanette Ingberman with Herb Tam.
[Image: Charles Koegel "Who Knows" (2010) acrylic, oil, spray paint, grass, matte medium on canvas 70 x 62 x 2 in.]
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Schedule
from February 25, 2011 to April 30, 2011
Opening Reception on 2011-02-25 from 19:00 to 21:00