Ruins in Reverse Group exhibition.
Ethan Breckenridge / David Brooks / Zipora Fried / Emily Henretta / Wyatt Kahn / Zak Kitnick / Erik Lindman / David Scanavino / Erin Shirreff / Nick Van Woert
“Inspired by the multifarious output of Robert Smithson and Gordon Matta-Clark, this first exhibition at the gallery celebrates the destructive nature of entropy”
January 8th- March 4th, 2012
41 Orchard Street, NYC, NY 10002
Modern Collections
Soft Op:
STRATEGIES OF MATERIAL TRANSFORMATION
13th Jan – 25th Feb 2012
Proposing a unifying term for a group of artists active primarily in New York, Soft OP outlines historical precedents for the optical and material experimentation of artists such as Anna Betbeze, Jacob Kassay, Erik Lindman, and Ned Vena. The artists combine optical patterning and sleight of eye with an alchemical alteration of materials, making what should be hard, resilient and impenetrable over into permeable visual membranes.
The categorization Soft OP describes predominantly abstract artworks that perform through manufactured material or optical transformation. Employing a chance driven, trace focused archiving of sensation or occurrence the works exhibit a highly phenomenological nature. Generally executing in series the artists of Soft OP are adroit manipulators of repetition, displacement, illusion, and combination.
In works most signature to Soft OP material transformations occur and surfaces perform extraordinary tricks – flat canvases distort, fold or twist and lines cut through grounds to reveal a second skin. Surfaces appear soft, somehow alive and active, with layers below to be excavated and revealed. Alternatively, this soft surface calcifies, turning chemical and reflective. Where representational-narrative images occur they fade into an endless expansive void. Each painting is an objective world unto itself, not a ground or plane for the projection of an identifiable image. The exhibition comprises a multi-generational view of these techniques and strategies.
Into The Surface
Aaron Bobrow, Heather Cook, Alex Dordoy, Andrew Gbur, David Hominal, Leo Gabin , Erik Lindman, Nazafarin Lotfi, Joseph Montgomery, Oscar Murillo, N.Dash, Ben Schumacher, Hugh Scott-Douglas, Dan Shaw-Town, Nick Van Woert, Ned Vena, Phil Wagner, Lisa Williamson
January 12, 2012 – February 23, 2012
NADA Miami Beach
The Deauville Beach Resort
6701 Collins Avenue
Miami Beach, FL 33141
December 1 – 4, 2011, Booth 311
Featuring:
Ryan Foerster, Erik Lindman & David Malek
“On Painting is a short treatise outlining the artist’s own approach to art-making and passionately asserting the value of painting to contemporary art practice. Part essay, part call-to-arms, On Painting is written in a style that mixes conversational appeals to the reader with rigorously thought-out and delicately composed arguments in proposal of a new style of painting.
In On Painting Lindman sets out a refreshed methodology of painting, one which rejects the prevalent discourses of defensive irony, cold conceptualism and empty sensationalism. Lindman adopts the seemingly paradoxical position of an artist who thinks in depth about his work only to urge the audience to think less about it. The work, despite its evident intelligence of its author, challenges the pre-eminence of desiccated academic interpretations of contemporary art in which the experience of the viewer is relegated in significance behind its potential to shock or épater le bourgeois.”
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