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January 2008
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Some Abstraction Occurs
@ 65GRAND, Jan 11 - Feb 9, 2008
Just when you thought painting for painting's sake had deserted our chilly city, an exhibition of painter's painters shows up at intimate gallery 65GRAND. Curator Tiffany Calvert pulls our conceptually clouded heads out of the snow with small works by four emerging abstract artists. Highlights include Pamela Jorden's Untitled oil-on-linen pieces — multi-tiered color explosions reminiscent of works by Bay Area abstractionists Richard Diebenkorn and David Park — and Wes Sherman's inscrutable silhouettes, which recall Luc Tuymans' sense of disrupted narrative. You may not know what you're looking at, but at this discombobulating exhibition, you certainly won't care.
written by Patricia Courson flavorpill, January 2008
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Some Abstraction Occurs
@ 65GRAND, Jan 11 - Feb 9, 2008
Just when you thought painting for painting's sake had deserted our chilly city, an exhibition of painter's painters shows up at intimate gallery 65GRAND. Curator Tiffany Calvert pulls our conceptually clouded heads out of the snow with small works by four emerging abstract artists. Highlights include Pamela Jorden's Untitled oil-on-linen pieces — multi-tiered color explosions reminiscent of works by Bay Area abstractionists Richard Diebenkorn and David Park — and Wes Sherman's inscrutable silhouettes, which recall Luc Tuymans' sense of disrupted narrative. You may not know what you're looking at, but at this discombobulating exhibition, you certainly won't care.
written by Patricia Courson flavorpill, January 2008
http://flavorpill.com/chicago/events/2008/1/11/some-abstraction-occurs
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Flavorpill publishes eleven email magazines, covering art, books, music, fashion, world news, and cultural events in six cities.
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January 2008
Newcity Chicago
Some Abstraction Occurs
@ 65GRAND, Jan 11 - Feb 9, 2008
PAMELA JORDEN, JASMINE JUSTICE, WES SHERMAN, WENDY WHITE
PAMELA JORDEN, JASMINE JUSTICE, WES SHERMAN, WENDY WHITE, "Some Abstraction Occurs," painting. 65Grand’s cozy space serves up work by four divergent painters: Pamela Jordan, Jasmine Justice, Wes Sherman and Wendy White. Each of their practices occurs within the ever-widening field of contemporary abstract painting. The show highlights the plurality of recent approaches to painting without pictures. While each of the artists has his or her own charms, Jasmine Justice’s hot paintings are the most inventive in the room. Ms. Justice’s spontaneous strokes of prefab color form textile-like patterns on the surface only to be changed through the addition of other eccentric shapes. The effect is quirky and fresh, with a hint of mischievousness. Pamela Jordan’s works are significantly more somber. Their darkened shapes collide with each other in an insistently flat world. Each blobby shape interacts uniquely with the others and has its own type of gesture-as-texture. Ms. Jordan’s paintings feel like a crowded street full of people bumping shoulders. Also on view are Wes Sherman’s tightly rendered cartographic abstractions inspired by American romantic painters such as Frederic Remington or Winslow Homer, and Wendy White’s urban-inspired acidic neon and black gastrula paintings with spray paint. "Some Abstraction Occurs" explores what it means to try to paint for paint’s sake in 2008. (Dan Gunn)
http://events.newcitychicago.com/calendar/event.asp?whatID=94557#
Newcity Chicago
Some Abstraction Occurs
@ 65GRAND, Jan 11 - Feb 9, 2008
PAMELA JORDEN, JASMINE JUSTICE, WES SHERMAN, WENDY WHITE
PAMELA JORDEN, JASMINE JUSTICE, WES SHERMAN, WENDY WHITE, "Some Abstraction Occurs," painting. 65Grand’s cozy space serves up work by four divergent painters: Pamela Jordan, Jasmine Justice, Wes Sherman and Wendy White. Each of their practices occurs within the ever-widening field of contemporary abstract painting. The show highlights the plurality of recent approaches to painting without pictures. While each of the artists has his or her own charms, Jasmine Justice’s hot paintings are the most inventive in the room. Ms. Justice’s spontaneous strokes of prefab color form textile-like patterns on the surface only to be changed through the addition of other eccentric shapes. The effect is quirky and fresh, with a hint of mischievousness. Pamela Jordan’s works are significantly more somber. Their darkened shapes collide with each other in an insistently flat world. Each blobby shape interacts uniquely with the others and has its own type of gesture-as-texture. Ms. Jordan’s paintings feel like a crowded street full of people bumping shoulders. Also on view are Wes Sherman’s tightly rendered cartographic abstractions inspired by American romantic painters such as Frederic Remington or Winslow Homer, and Wendy White’s urban-inspired acidic neon and black gastrula paintings with spray paint. "Some Abstraction Occurs" explores what it means to try to paint for paint’s sake in 2008. (Dan Gunn)
http://events.newcitychicago.com/calendar/event.asp?whatID=94557#
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Nashville Visual Arts Events, September 1-10
Nashville Visual Arts Events, September 1-10
The Arts Company, Wes Sherman. Sherman bases his paintings on Old Master artworks, but not in the form of derivative visual quotations. He boils down the massings and colors of those works into graceful abstractions that echo the massings and colors of the older works. I find Sherman’s results stand on their own very well, but they serve as a gloss on these other paintings, pointing out ways to look at their essential structures. One of his paintings in this year’s show is based on O’Keefe’s Radiator Building, a tribute to this big piece of Nashville’s artistic legacy and a sad reminder of the possibility that the painting will leave town after the lawyers get done.
written by David Maddox
http://perambulating.blogspot.com
written by David Maddox
http://perambulating.blogspot.com