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Email PageAfter Lovecraft
April 19, 2007- May 25, 2007
Reception: April 19, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Nicolas Rule
Dinter Fine Art
547 W 27th StDINTER FINE ART is pleased to present a solo exhibition of recent paintings by Nicolas Rule.
Highly acclaimed in the late 1980's and early 1990's for his paintings depicting the bloodlines of thoroughbred horses, Nicolas Rule returns with paintings of ghostly words derived from the horror tales of writer H.P. Lovecraft. Developed concurrently with the horse "pedigree" paintings, these works have been the focus of Rule's artistic explorations in recent years.
Using the original typeface of the printed page as a point of departure, the words are rendered in calligraphic style to resemble semi-destroyed lettering. Within a narrow range of color and vocabulary, words are repeated in various stages of disappearance: bleeds, drips, runs and melts seem to hover, evaporate and dissolve. With literal meaning obscured—it looks as though a rainstorm has swept through the studio—a willful transcendence takes place, transporting the viewer towards abstraction and so to evermore sublime levels of aesthetic experience.
Nicolas Rule has participated in several group exhibitions at DINTER FINE ART, including the inaugural exhibition "Word of Mouth: A Selection, Part One" in 2004. Previous solo exhibitions include Esso Gallery (2000), Paul Kasmin Gallery (1994) and Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery (1990, 1991) in New York; and Michael Kohn Gallery (1991) in Los Angeles. Rule has participated in numerous group exhibitions in galleries and museums throughout the USA and Europe, including most recently the Fisher Landau Center for Art and the Cleveland Institute of Art; his work can be found in many public and private collections.
The exhibition remains on view through May 25th.
A text by Max Blagg will accompany the exhibition.
Books and DVDs related to artists in this show
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