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A Light of Glowing Color

September 7, 2006- October 7, 2006

Reception: September 7, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Alan Kleiman

Robert Steele Gallery

511 W 25th St

My paintings are labor intensive, never laborious. A physical reaction must accompany the visual stimulation of what is in front of me. Transfixed by some phenomenal color, notes are taken on scraps of paper. What I see is never just one color. I paint what I see, a myriad of particles and shadings relating to their surroundings.

I can be enthralled by a color ranging from the sky to the gutter, cars going by, dresses in windows, puke in the street, food discarded, dogs and cats' eyes, other peoples' paintings, flowers and dyes, even flies; whatever catches my eye.

Tools are: flayed hardware store brushes, and dental drills. The paintings are envisioned and composed of as many as 50-100 layers of paint, that are mixed and remixed on the canvas while slashing and chipping away to the canvas beneath.

Starting with arabesque gestures, each layer is drawn into and scored many times. The hand held burrs echo the arabesque brushwork, old penmanship exercises, and imitation calligraphy.

To complete a painting, I work out doors. My left and right hand paint simultaneously, in a gestural finish, as if knitting threads. To complete a painting can take from 2-6 months.

Alan Kleiman, 2006

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