Warren Isensee
dal 26/4/2002 al 1/6/2002
Segnalato da
26/4/2002
Warren Isensee
Massimo Audiello, New York
Warren Isensee is a painter with a sense of humor. Isensee continues to work with his pebble motif and maintains his signature meticulously clean edges without the aid of any tape or masking techniques. The geometry of his work has maintained a taste for charged accumulations; however what is new on the horizon here, are more linear optical games.
Massimo Audiello is pleased to announce an exhibition of paintings by Warren Isensee. The show will run through June 1, 2002. This will be his second solo-show with Massimo
Audiello.
Warren Isensee is a painter with a sense of humor. You only have to peruse
his titles to understand that his work is a game of wits. Sunset Stripe,
Natural Seduction, Finest Aura... his feel for puns is an elaboration of his
painting style, silly and sardonic all at once.
Isensee continues to work with his pebble motif and maintains his
signature meticulously clean edges without the aid of any tape or
masking techniques. The geometry of his work has maintained a taste
for charged accumulations; however what is new on the horizon here,
are more linear optical games.
One begins to see reason and analysis encroaching into each
composition, replacing a once bursting exuberance with a more
vehement investigation. So the positive energy is the same but Warren
is developing a dialogue for different shades of moods.
Confirming this exploration, he has begun to mute some of his colors
which has allowed him to reveal a new palette of emotions. Some of
the optical intensity has been dissolved creating room for cooler
atmospheres and new electric melancholies.
Architecture and design dominates the core of his inspiration to testify
his belief in the power to build your own positive vision. It is an
optimism against all odds which never becomes dogmatic since it is
based on such an exhilarating notion of play.
Ultimately, in this new body of work Warren Isensee is toying with his
identity as a pop painter. His search for a "Pop sublime" has brought
him within a context where, in his own words... "For years I couldn’t
say the word ‘beauty’ and now I find myself swinging that way."
Image: Warren Isensee, Finest Aura
Massimo Audiello
526 West 26th Street No.519 New York, NY 10001