Catherine Howe
dal 6/3/2015 al 9/4/2015
Segnalato da
6/3/2015
Catherine Howe
Von Lintel Gallery, Los Angeles
Supreme Fiction. By using the historical idiom of still-life as the anchor, the artist mashes the heroics of action-painting with the humility of vanitas tableaux.
Von Lintel Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings by
New York artist, Catherine Howe
The unrestrained brushwork in Howe’s anarchic paintings inject raw emotion
into docile subject matter, like flowers in a vase. By using the
historical idiom of still-life as the anchor, Howe mashes the heroics of
action-painting with the humility of vanitas tableaux.
Rather than focus on intimate observation, Howe operates on memory and
feeling to invest mutable mediums with immense physicality. Pushing
buckets of clear gloss over titanium molding paste, nascent forms become
visible only after a dusting of carborundum grit (traditionally used to
smooth lithography stone) and a final sweep of a broom. A self-proclaimed
materials fiend, Howe also experiments with mica interference pigment
suspended in acrylic resin to lend a refractive, iridescence to the canvas
ground.
While the works explode with movement and texture, Howe restricts herself
with respect to color. A stark palette emphasizes the expressive,
psychological gestures seemingly unleashed during manic creative outputs.
Howe qualifies the entire process as one of alchemy. As Michéle C. Cone
writes in a recent catalogue essay, “Maybe, Howe’s evocative paintings are
not about still life per se, but about the naming of things transposed
into paint, and the magical interaction between medium, memory and
perception.”
Born in Western New York in 1959, Howe received an MFA from SUNY Buffalo
in 1983. The many publications that have reviewed her work include Art in
America, Artforum, Art Critical, The New York Times, The New Yorker, and
the Los Angeles Times. Howe has exhibited throughout the United States and
Europe for over twenty years, including shows at the Corcoran Gallery of
Art in Washington, DC, MoMA PS 1 in New York, and the Albright-Knox Art
Gallery in Buffalo.
Image: Catherine Howe, Carborundum and Silver Painting (Cat and Mouse), 2014,acrylic, encaustic, metal leaf, carborundum grit and gesso on canvas, 66 x 60 inches (167.6 x 152.4 cm
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