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February 14, 2008- March 15, 2008
Joe Brainard, Alice Dalton Brown, Leigh Behnke, Ryan Cobourn, Daisy Craddock, Patrick Gordon, Nancy Hagin, Glen Holland, Carl Plansky, Meg Shields, Lowell Tolstedt
Fischbach Gallery
210 11th Ave Ryan Cobourn Garden 12 (2008) |  Joe Brainard Red Rose (1975) |  Patrick Gordon The Studio Table (2007) |
Once described as “things that just about buckle my knees with pleasure” Joe Brainard’s (1942-1994) drawings, collages, assemblages, and paintings are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and many others. The paintings of Alice Dalton Brown, (b-1939) also in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, vividly portray her knowledge of color and careful attention to light and shadow.
Leigh Behnke’s (b-1946) style reflects a post modern concept that is partially photographic in its source and involves rethinking the meaning of the pictorial space. Behnke works in various mediums, exhibiting indifference toward the traditional hierarchy of materials. Daisy Craddock (b-1949) portrays her close study of colors from the natural world to depict morning glories in her recent series of diptychs. Her works display a modulated and detailed complexity that grows out of multiple layers of scumbled oil pastels burnished by the artist’s hand.
Nancy Hagin (b-1940) beautifully juxtaposes the crispness of exposed sunlight with the vibrant colors of “found objects” and textured fabrics in her still lifes. The still life paintings of Glen Holland (b-1956) infuse ordinary objects—lemons, apples, onions, carnations, glass vases, etc. with a mysterious but subdued tension. Holland utilizes a dramatic chiaroscuro descended from Caravaggio, creating startling contrasts between objects and their background through a dynamic illumination.
Plansky’s canvases burst from their frames and refract luscious color into their surroundings vividly illustrating his passionate love and obsession for paint. Meg Shield’s (b-1953) still lifes incorporate a unique array of colorful objects whose placement create relationships which are active and challenging. All are an experiment in sustained attention; in the process of stating the exact things which were there to see the inevitable transformation.
In his still lifes, Tolstedt (b-1939) meticulously layers colored pencil to accomplish extraordinary effects of light and texture. Each still life exhibits a formal arrangement of compositional parts depicting Tolstedt’s incredible technical discipline. The result is a purely visual experience based on an intellectual arrangement.
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