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SUMMARY:Breaking Glass
DESCRIPTION:The Painting Center is pleased to announce Breaking Glass\, a group exhibition opening on September 7\, 2021 and running through October 2\, 2021. The exhibition showcases watercolor artists on the forefront of developing modern techniques to present their watercolor artwork in a permanent fashion\, without the typical glazing so common in watercolor. For centuries\, watercolor artists have struggled for recognition of their medium as equivalent to other mediums in importance\, stature\, and value. \nThe exhibition\, which is sponsored by Golden Artist Colors\, Inc.\, and curated by Laurin McCracken with support from The Painting Center\, features ten watercolor artists who are recognized through their memberships in national watercolor societies and multiple awards for their work\, as well as being represented in significant public and private collections. \n“We strongly support this work and this exhibition as an important step to begin to break down the hurdles for artists working in watercolor\, said Golden Artist Colors CEO\, Mark Golden. “Aptly titled Breaking Glass\, the show is about removing glass as a barrier to the viewer as well as breaking the glass ceiling of arbitrary values placed on a medium and not on the work itself. We continue to devalue the work of many incredibly talented artists because they have chosen the medium of watercolor. We have created a devalued market for their work\, not based on aesthetics or merit\, but on the fact that the work is created in paper and exhibited behind glass. We hope this show will shed light on a topic needing many further discussions and changes in the future.” A full color catalogue of the paintings in Breaking Glass is available. \nArtists featured in the exhibition are Laurin McCracken\, TX; Rance Jones\, TX; Michael Holter\, VA; Matthew Bird\, MD; Lynn D. Pratt\, VT; Thomas Bucci\, Wash.\, D.C.; James Maria\, PA; Iain Stewart\, AL; Frank Spino\, FL; and David Stickel\, NC. \n\nImage:\nJames Maria\nThat Old Familiar Smell\n11 x 15 inches
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LOCATION:The Painting Center\, 547 W 27th\, Suite 500\, New York\, New York\, 10001\, United States
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SUMMARY:Katharine Dufault: To Be In The Same World
DESCRIPTION:The selection of recent paintings by Katharine Dufault seen in her solo exhibition at The Painting Center display a deep connection to nature as a source of inspiration. Encountering these quiet confident paintings one can imagine that the title of the exhibition\, To Be In The Same World\, reveals the artist’s deep connection to the natural world beyond the mere depiction of nature and that this connection feels both poetic and transcendental. \nDufault demonstrates a skillful and reductive approach to landscape. The results which appear deceptively simple display flattened graphic elements of trees\, horizon and sky. It is no easy task to render the deep space of a mountain valley with surrounding hills and attendant copse of trees in a manner that strips the whole scene down to its very bones as seen in Full Moon On Quiet Trees. But the viewer is rewarded with Dufault’s practice of employing color as content and shape as feeling. The results feel insightful and personal. \nThese paintings\, which cross boundaries into complete abstraction and back again in their pictorial range\, speak to the universal and aspirational impact the natural could can have on our collective waking and unconscious mind. There is a certain mild invitation for the viewer to enter the scene and fill in the brushwork with one’s own content and feeling. That the artist might have felt rapture while encountering a scene out in the wild is of no help to us in seeing what she has seen\, or feeling what she has felt. But viewing the paintings she has brought back from her imagination transport us with her in the idealizing desire to hold still in our mind that which a cannot be held at all. These pictures are remarkable in their modest power of suggestion. \nWhen considering Dufault’s landscape artworks I am reminded of the painter Milton Avery (1885-1965) and his wife the painter Sally Michel (1902 – 2003) who both expressed their interest in color as content and shape as feeling with their explorations in landscape\, still life and portraiture. Their bold reductive and indelible artworks were in turn inspired by Matisse in ways that remove formal distractions in a composition and focus instead on the primacy of form and color. Avery’s work had influenced many of the abstract expressionists who championed radical approaches to rendering paintings that were closer to visual poetry than a slavish devotion to literal representation. One can see that legacy of vision here as well. \nThe title of the exhibition\, To Be In The Same World is also the name of a poetry anthology by the poet Peter Kane Dufault (1923 – 2013). His poems were published in signifiant periodicals and were celebrated and highly regarded yet he remained relatively unknown throughout his career. He was the artist’s father-in-law and her familiarity with the poet’s work reveals a personal approach to how these paintings might render a visual kind of poetry. The artist has stated her resonance with many of the poems. Such as Acer Americanus – \nIs this all there is —\na ubiquitous Carbon driving\ninto the highest forks of the maples\nand the highest offices hunting\nempires of sunlight and water or money and blood\nfor ballast against the moon?\nOr have I been too long under these trees? \nKatharine Dufault’s deft handling of paint reveals her poetic predilections such as in Midwinter ll\, Morning Gesture and Poet’s Walk\, three paintings depicting the structure of trees in striking ways. Although small in scale\, Midwinter ll and Morning Gesture present intimate backlit senes where the simple idea of trees has been transfigured into the sinew of single gestures from a brush\, poetry indeed. Larger in scale\, Poet’s walk presents a harrowing verdant green path though a pink floored forest of bare trees\, a di Chirico like space of hard shadows in washes and stripes and bright light\, daring us to walk forward and accept whatever fate has waiting beyond. The Moon appears in a dozen or so of the paintings\, as a familiar sojourner halting the motion of the senes while casting its pale crepuscular illumination. It is a signifier of time\, here seen at its fullest yet bound to circle though the sky in phases\, moving tides and bodies. We see the moon here again\, holding still that which cannot be held within an intimate frame. Ms. Dufault shows us her vision of the natural world as a way to know one’s own feelings about existing in that world. That is to say that Ms. Dufault embraces being out there as a means to find one’s place within ourselves. Along with other evocative landscapes and several expressive portraits\, To Be In The Same World shows an artist reveling in the poetry of painting. \n-Henry Mandell\, Oregon Coast 2021 \nFor more information\, visit www.katharinedufault.com
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LOCATION:The Painting Center\, 547 W 27th\, Suite 500\, New York\, New York\, 10001\, United States
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SUMMARY:Anki King: Waiting
DESCRIPTION:The Painting Center is pleased to present Waiting\, a group of recent figurative works by painter Anki King\, on view from June 22 to July 17\, 2021 in the Project Room. \nGrowing up in a small town in Norway\, as a child\, King heard stories about trolls\, nisse\, and other magical beings who lived in the forest. The magic and mystery\, color\, and general feeling of that place are still very much a part of who she is and it shows in her work. The imagery in these recent paintings is discovered through the process of creation. King works on loose canvas stretched and stapled to the studio wall and often starts by smearing bright patches of thin paint over the whole surface. \nThe physicality of King’s work is equally adventurous. The rugged texture and blue light in this series of paintings have a strong connection to the nature where she grew up. These are not surfaces painted by design\, but rather arrived at through a process of trial and error. There is no uniform format or size to these paintings. For over twenty years\, she has been in the perpetual condition of challenging herself to do things differently from one painting to the next. At the same time\, she has been building a robust toolbox of painterly technique all her own by making changes\, waiting and watching for the unexpected to suggest itself. \nMost of the figures in this exhibit appear covered by a sheet. The shroud can be protection\, or a way of creating distance\, and also makes for an alluring mystery. Even though they are faceless\, the figures still communicate directly and urgently with the viewer\, almost challenging those who look their way.  There is no movement in the figure\, no wind catching their sheets\, but the brushwork is lively and tactile and allows for motion in the paint itself. Time is required in the meeting with these characters\, they give up their secrets slowly. If one is willing to pause\, there might be a whisper of meaning\, a chance to connect and gain understanding. \nAnki King has exhibited frequently in the US and abroad. In 2010 she won the London International Creative Competition. In 2019 she was featured as one of nineteen Norwegian contemporary artists in Kunstnerliv\, which was voted the best art book of the year in Norway. She will represent Norway in the 19th Asian Art Biennale 2021\, in Bangladesh. She is also featured in the documentary Artists in NYC\, available on Amazon. \nFor more information\, visit www.ankiking.com.
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