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Warren Isensee 2008

January 10, 2008- February 10, 2008

Reception: January 10, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Warren Isensee

Danese

535 W 24th St

Warren Isensee’s new work revels in vivid, exuberant, unrestrained color within the context of classic, geometric abstraction. Isensee has managed to avoid the anonymous, impersonal appearance often associated with hard-edge painting. His unexpected and playful juxtapositions of vibrant color are visually intense – illusory pale spots throb at the intersections of black lines and colored stripes glow like neon tubes. These glowing grid, striped and concentric rectangle paintings play adroitly with conventions of Modernist abstraction and are almost hallucinogenically beautiful.

This is earnest work without a whiff of cynicism about the redemptive value of abstraction. Much of its pleasure comes from the vital flush of optimism – the sense that colors, compressed judicially one against the other and distributed wisely within a geometric environment, are all that is needed for a full and meaningful expression of emotion.

Born in Asheville, North Carolina in 1956, Isensee studied architecture at the University of Oklahoma and subsequently majored in painting and graphic design. Isensee was included in the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts and received a Purchase Award. He received the Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant in 1999 and has exhibited extensively in the United States and is included in the collections of the Blanton Museum, Austin, TX and the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY, among others. He works in New York City where he lives with his wife and two children.

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Location   Gallery Danese Address 535 W 24th St, 6th Fl New York (Chelsea) NY, 10011 United States Phone 212-223-2227 Fax 212-605-1016 Hours Tue-Sat 10-6 Nearby: All 5 galleries at 535 W 24th St

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