Two exhibitions
dal 20/11/2002 al 21/12/2002
Segnalato da
20/11/2002
Two exhibitions
Bill Maynes Gallery, New York
Albert Contreras, Glitter Painting: in his review of the last show, published in Art in America, Joe Fyfe aptly writes: Contreras is an endlessly seductive colorist. Alexi Worth, Paintings: for his first showing at the gallery, he will present Gerberman at Large, a sequence of five new figurative oil paintings on panel.
Albert Contreras, Glitter Painting
Alexi Worth, Paintings
Albert Contreras: Glitter Painting
In his review of the last show, published in Art in America, Joe Fyfe aptly writes: Contreras is an endlessly seductive colorist.
Alexi Worth: Paintings
For his first showing at the gallery, he will present Gerberman at Large, a sequence of five new figurative oil paintings on panel.
Albert Contreras
After a successful career in the 1960s, Albert Contreras hit a wall, giving up painting completely and returning to his native Los Angeles, where he worked for 25 years driving a truck for the sanitation department. He retired in 1996, and at that point re-organized his rent-controlled studio apartment two blocks from the Santa Monica Pier, and began painting again at an indefatigable, almost feverish pace.
Now, at 69, Contreras has been pushing himself like never before, making compact, hard-edged, abstract paintings of thickly applied acrylic that are both guileless and beautiful; and with each new body of works, more witty, exotic, and energetic. And this time around he’s added glitter.
In his review of the last show, published in Art in America, Joe Fyfe aptly writes: Contreras is an endlessly seductive colorist. [In] one painting, a luminous caramel-gold background supports a tiny gridded network of dullish, dental-silver cubes. Another version of the same pattern uses iridescent egg yolk with an aftershave ice blue. . . At first glance, because of the smaller scale of these works, one thinks of gift-box covers, candy or jewelry, but these paintings reveal a more pugnacious, dangerous charm, like a drugged gangster, giddy with pleasure.
Alexi Worth
For his first showing at the gallery, Alexi Worth will present Gerberman at Large, a sequence of five new figurative oil paintings on panel.
Each painting presents a small gesture or micro-happening in the life of Gerberman, the paintings’ amiable (if decidedly unglamorous) protagonist. Gerberman is an odd type, at once familiar and evasive, sympathetic and faintly creepy. He is the guy in the corner looking lost, the wan romantic with the loud tie, an avatar of unwarranted optimism. Taken together the five images suggest a continuous narrative, a fairy-tale journey from hope to fantasy.
Bill Maynes Gallery
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NYC 10011
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