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Kevin Wixted: Recent Paintings

October 19, 2006- November 18, 2006

Reception: October 20, 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Kevin Wixted

Lohin Geduld Gallery

531 W 25th St

Lohin Geduld Gallery is proud to present recent paintings by Kevin Wixted. In his sixth solo exhibition in New York, Wixted explores the intersection between architectural forms and painting ideas. Using the basic structure of cities and fortifications, Wixted "builds" the formal relationships of color, shape, and scale into shimmering compositions suggestive of both bustling urban centers and medieval hill towns.

The genesis of Wixted’s imagery begins with on-site drawings and watercolors done at locations as varied as Mayan ceremonial centers in the Yucatan, Moroccan palaces, Italian duomos, and Ireland’s beehive huts and castles. These experiences are assimilated with Wixted’s meditations on the skyline of New York City. The results are a confluence of sources and impressions yielding playfully dynamic cities that seem both ancient and futuristic.

Wixted’s polychromatic constructions can be taken as either projections of architectural follies or tangible places. They share the metaphysical air of Morandi and De Chirico while presenting an encoded geometry reminiscent of Alfred Jensen. These paintings are full of puzzles and visual games, presented in the lush vernacular of impasto oil paint and sumptuous color. They are works of supreme simplicity and sophistication, straddling the territories of architecture, abstraction, and meditative gesture.

Kevin Wixted has had solo exhibitions at Lohin Geduld Gallery, New York, Alpha Gallery, Boston, Thomas Deans Fine Art, Atlanta, David Beitzel Gallery, New York, R.B Stevenson Gallery, San Diego, Patricia Shea Gallery, Santa Monica, Smallworks Gallery, Las Vegas, and Gallery au 9, Casablanca, Morocco. His work has appeared in numerous group exhibitions including Albright Knox Art Gallery, Allentown Art Museum, National Academy of Design, State Museum of Pennsylvania, and the Mississippi Museum of Art. Wixted’s shows have been reviewed in Art in America, Artforum, ARTnews, Hudson Review, and the Boston Globe. His work is included in the public collections of the State Museum of Pennsylvania, Mississippi Art Museum, Chase Manhattan Bank, Chemical Bank, Hewlett Packard, Noruma Securieties, Societe Generale, and Time Warner, Inc. Wixted has been awarded a New York Foundation for the Arts Grant, a Josef and Anni Albers Foundation Residency Fellowship, and two MacDowell Colony Residency Fellowships. Wixted is an Associate Professor of Painting in the School of Art & Design at Alfred University and lives and works in New York City and East Marion, NY.



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