June 13-July 13, 2013
Open Tuesday-Saturday 11-6,
(Closed July 4-6)
Artists:
Jose Camacho Linda Herritt, Tom McGlynn,
Gary Petersen, Alexandra Rojas, Kikuo Saito, Roger Sayre, Kate Teale, Tenesh
Webber
24-6-Space is pleased to present its inaugural exhibit
"In Form”. This exhibit focuses
on abstraction, with artists
working in a wide variety
of mediums, including drawing, painting, sculpture and photography. What unites this group is a sense
that abstract form can often is the most efficient means to express phenomenal
experiences, along with symbolic ideas. These artists tend to work the seam
between abstraction and representation with lyrical, and thought provoking
results.
All of
the artists presented are deeply involved in pushing their chosen medium past received notions of
representation and categorical definitions of drawing, painting, sculpture and photography.
The show’s title ,“In Form”, not
only designates an interest
in shape but also in conceptual method and content.
Jose Camacho
plays with text and form derived from his native Puerto Rico. Using
vernacular language and minimalist contours he figuratively
maps a very specific cultural
landscape. Linda
Herritt uses word as form. Her drawings of text extrapolated from
generic sources are made with watercolor and colored pencil on paper. Tom McGlynn’s paintings on wood
panel are minimal in form yet play with color combinations reminiscent of
popular culture. Gary Petersen
also works with abstract form. His paintings stretch and morph the picture
plane with a wildly varied palette. Alexandra
Rojas works with more subdued tonalities, which offset her pigment
composition’s intense physicality. Kikuo
Saito’s gesture and color as well as found text in some of his
reductive paintings on magazine pages. Roger
Sayre explores photography as a means to express duration and color
interaction in compositions that often recall classic abstract painting. Kate Teale is a painter who is uniquely aware of how her medium powdered graphite informs the subjects of her work. Her compositions
derived from bedscapes and seascapes play form and content against medium. Tenesh Webber has developed her
own photographic processes out of manipulating sculptural forms to derive her
photograms of fields of shapes and
lines.
In Form presents
a varied cross section of contemporary artistic practice. The artists
push their own expectations of where the boundaries of form mesh with content,
sharing an interest in just how their work gets physically made, to offer work,
which is both conceptually rigorous and formally sensual.
24-6-Space
44 West 24th St.
New York, NY 10010
800. 658.7366 x5106
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