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Email PageThe Hidden Reality: Three Perspectives on Landscapes
April 20, 2006- May 27, 2006
William Engel, Bernard Guillot, Becket Logan
Skoto Gallery
529 W 20th St William Engel Amethyst Cliff (2006) |  Becket Logan Talmadge Canyon (2005) |  Bernard Guillot Paysage X (2004) |
William Engel's work manages to reconcile a rigorous commitment to abstractions with a devotion to the use of a complex layered system of colors and solidly structured compositions. As an artist who constantly interrogates what he sees, he strives to shape and reshape the basis of his art. His paintings are invented landscapes, often with a background of diaphanous blue-grey evocative of sky, water and mountains rendered spontaneously with brush strokes that move with utmost boldness and conviction. Prolonged viewing is often rewarded as even what seems a restful background becomes an imaginary, charged space of incredible tension in which the planes are subtly but sharply de-centered. William Engel has shown nationally since 1979 when he first started exhibiting at the Friends Gallery, Minneapolis Institute of Art. His works are in several collections including Shering-Plough, New Jersey and Alliance Capitol, Dallas, Texas.
Presently, he is a senior faculty member of the New York School of Interior Design.
Bernard Guillot's highly sophisticated work at first glance looks deceptively gentle and his accomplishment is in the complexity of the relationship in his compositions. In his drawings, he uses the energy of the drawn line to chart the borders of figuration and abstraction with compositions often inspired by the natural forms, both real and imagined that he has encountered over the years living in various places such as Egypt, Spain, Greece and France. There is pure rigor and economy of line that encourages a purity of intent and simplicity of execution in his work. Since 1971, he has participated in several shows in Cairo, New York, Berlin and France. He is represented in several collections including Musee d'art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, Musee d'art Moderne, Nice, France; Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris and American University, Cairo.
For Becket Logan, photography is ultimately about the nature of light which reflects the time of day or season, the harshness caused by the flatness of light, whether (the light) comes from the side, back or top, the reflected light bouncing from surfaces and the reality of light coming from the window. He is a New York City-based photographer best known for his striking portraits of artists, writers and poets such as Sapphire, James Broughton, Samuel Delaney, Allan Gurganis which have appeared in several exhibitions and publications including New York Magazine, Architectural Digest, Horizon Magazine and Poets and Writers. His large format photographs of realistic landscape in this show are highly precise and strong in perspective. They possess a strong sense of poetry and represent a true testimony of the potential of one's imagination.
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