- Recursions
- Charles Cowles Gallery, New York
- Catalogue
- Press Release
- About this work
Recursions consists of ten paintings and five works on paper that function as a self-referential system. The works progress logically, beginning with pairs or quads of nearly identical ‘siblings’ that appear different because the order of the painted layers is shuffled. Otherwise, they are materially, physically identical in color, form, composition, and technique. The group culminates in large works that exhibit an expansion of the compositional field—a disintegration of the regularity of the forms, and an increasing spatial perspective. These works represent a ‘break’–a shift, a digression–or perhaps, a beginning or an ending. Differentiation within the closed system allows for comparison and the assertion of identity. ‘Familial’ repetition within the body of work is a means of suggesting multiplicity and transformation through the language of abstraction.
The large gouache works on paper are based on the skeletal, or ‘wire-frame’ versions of the forms that comprise the vernacular of my paintings. These works are the result of a direct and immediate investigation of the relationship between the computer, the projector and the hand, restrained by the careful application of thin, painted lines in a reduced palette of grey tones.
Recursions was exhibited at Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, September 2-October 4, 2008.
Selected works from Recursions were exhibited in Color and Construct: Amy Ellingson, Patsy Krebs, Bruce Robbins, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, June 18-August 1, 2009.