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Email PageGroup Show: Color
May 1, 2006- June 17, 2006
Peter Halley, Greg Bogin, Christopher Brooks, Anthony James, Morris Louis, Dan Flavin
Nicholas Robinson Gallery
535 W 20th StBriggs Robinson is pleased to present an exhibition premised upon the use of color as the principal constituent element of formalist practice, and how this example has been employed, distorted and played with over the last forty years.
The show is not intended to be an exhaustive survey, but more an editorial selection – it juxtaposes prominent examples of classic modernist works with more recent pieces, in order to note the pluralism precipitated by those early examples
The show seeks to illustrate how the formalism of the 60s masters, seeking the highest intellectual justification for painting and sculptures’ continued existence, has become one of the staple visual cues of contemporary culture.
The exhibition includes two paintings by Peter Halley, an important linchpin in this lineage, as he was the first to employ rigid formal practice as a metaphor for contemporary urban life – showing us how minimalism and the tenets of formal painting had in fact themselves become elements in an expanded 'pop' vocabulary.
The work of Greg Bogin, Christopher Brooks and Anthony James further demonstrates how formal abstraction continues to provide the language for works that are both referential and rigorous, but with equal measure of wit.
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