Gary Panter “Dream Town”
Fredericks & Freiser Gallery
This event has ended.
Fredericks & Freiser presents Dream Town, an exhibition of new paintings by Gary Panter. This exhibition confirms Panter’s continued interest in the play of figuration residing in the fields of abstraction. The seventeen paintings on canvas are united in process and theme and display a wide array of painterly effects, contrasting flat acrylic color fields, transparent washes, and expressive gestures.
In Dream Town, Panter presents a boiled-down treatment of post-war abstraction coupled with pop culture archetypes such as heroes, villains, monsters, and wrestlers. Intense color is everywhere and provides a contrast to the primal nature of the figures. Yet, as we have come to expect from Gary Panter, something very strange is going on. Not only does the equation of figure, color, and abstraction stand as historically sensitive and wittily absurd, it embodies the uncanny disconnect between our stories and ourselves.
Media
Schedule
from August 26, 2014 to September 27, 2014
Opening Reception on 2014-09-04 from 18:00 to 20:00