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Email PageWide Angles / Peripheral Visions
November 17, 2005- December 17, 2005
Alexandra Tyng
Fischbach Gallery
210 11th AveThe Fischbach Gallery is pleased to present "Wide Angles / Peripheral Visions", recent work by Alexandra Tyng. The exhibition opens 17 November and is on view through 17 December 2005.
If you look straight ahead, you only get a piece of what's there. But your eyes take in far more than that. What you see directly is perceived in relation to what is around you on all sides. When artist Alexandra Tyng paints a group of buildings, a range of mountains or chain of lakes, she shows all of it, plus what is next to it and around it. She believes that true understanding of a subject takes place in context of its enviornment.
In her new work Tyng continues to paint the lively colors and geometric forms of coastal Maine architecture. Strong patterns of light and shadow and angles of physical edges lead to the central focal point, but there are other side views between the buildings and suggestions of other ways of looking around the forms at the edges of the composition. The eye is aware of these other perspective points even when focused on what is straight ahead, which adds to our understanding of these forms.
The exhibit includes several large mountain top panoramas and aerial views of the Maine coastal topography. Again, in these paintings, there is dramatic light and shadow, diagnals, and a cental focal point surrounded by secondary points of interest. "When you are up in a plane or helicopter, you see the whole landscape open out in front of you, below you, and on both sides. I want to show the whole picture. Only then can you understand what it is like to be up there, to see it with your own eyes."
Though Tyng uses photography as references, especially for her aerial views, this show is not about the distortion of the camera; it is about the lens of the eye and what it is capable of: "If I could go completely around something and show what it looked like in a single painting, I would. This is the next best thing."
Books and DVDs related to artists in this show
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