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Email PageLarge Scale Studio Paintings
June 19, 2006- August 19, 2006
Amer Kobaslija
George Adams Gallery
525 W 26th StThis summer George Adams Gallery will present new large-scale paintings by Amer Kobaslija. Following his debut exhibition at the gallery earlier this year featuring small-scale paintings of his studio, this exhibition will introduce six new oils of the artist's studio that range in size from single panel paintings 5x4 feet to a nearly life-size triptych 7x12 feet.
Kobaslija favors vertiginous perspectives and this sensation is greatly enhanced by his shift to the larger scale. Con Te Partiro (Time to Say Goodbye), 2006, for example, presents a cluttered studio -- paint encrusted palette, paint splattered floor, photographs and paintings covering the walls, a tripod-mounted camera in the center of the room -- seen from above. The skewed bird's eye-view not only reveals the artists working method, but also draws attention to and intensifies the complex ecosystem of the artist's cramped quarters. In contrast, Door View, 2005, also a triptych and one of the largest paintings in the exhibition at just over 7x9 feet, starkly depicts the studio as if abandoned with bare whitewalls and the door left ajar.
Amer Kobaslija was born in Bosnia in 1975. He received his BFA from the Ringling School of Art and Design in Florida and his MFA from Montclair University in New Jersey. In 2005, Kobaslija was awarded a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant.
Art Reviews of Large Scale Studio Paintings
| New York Times June 30, 2006 | Ken Johnson | "It's not what you paint, but how you paint. That might be the motto of Amer Kobaslija, a young artist from Bosnia who has a recent M.F.A. degree from Montclair State University. Mr. Kobaslija makes paintings of his studio, a small, windowless, white-walled room of the sort commonly provided to graduate students by state universities. Working on panels joined into diptychs or triptychs measuring up to 7 feet by 12 feet, he paints intensely realistic, exhaustively detailed pictures of the room and its contents as if viewed from a corner near the ceiling...." |
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