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4/5/2012

Pard Morrison / Adam Fowler

Brian Gross Fine Art, San Francisco

Pard Morrison

Brian Gross Fine Art is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of works by Colorado artist, Pard Morrison, opening Thursday, May 3, with a reception for the artist on Saturday, May 5, from 4-6pm. Featured will be Morrison's signature work that takes the form of colorful, wall- mounted paintings in patinated aluminum, and related freestanding sculptures. Also included will be a series of enamel on acrylic drawings. The exhibition, the artist's first major solo show in San Francisco, will be on view through June 30, 2012. Influenced by the grid paintings of Agnes Martin and the rectilinear sculptures of Donald Judd, the work of Pard Morrison builds upon the Minimalist tradition. Experimenting with color and shape, Morrison departs from his predecessors through his bold color palette. Through the repetition of blocks of neutral colors juxtaposed with vibrant colors, Morrison's gridded geometric forms are a dramatic mix of geometry and delicate application of paint. Preferring the term "human minimalism," Morrison's painterly treatment of surface creates works that are hard-edge geometry with "soft" edges.

Morrison begins his process by fabricating forms in aluminum to which he applies pigment through an enameling process called "patination." Morrison's paintings play with color, shape, and form, resulting in work that is a cross between painting and sculpture. Morrison translates his geometric paintings to sculpture through the wrapping of vivid rectilinear shapes onto the sculptural form. Designed for both indoor and outdoor installation, Morrison's large-scale monolithic sculptures make for a profound visual and physical encounter. Drawing upon the traditions of reductive painting and geometric abstraction, Morrison's work is vibrant and dynamic, buffered with a quiet and subtle quality that offers a unique aesthetic experience.

Pard Morrison was born in Colorado Springs, Colorado and received his BFA in sculpture from Colorado State University. His work has been exhibited widely throughout the United States and can be found in the collections of the University of Wyoming Art Museum and the Colorado Springs Fine Art Center, among others. Morrison currently lives and works in Colorado Springs.

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Adam Fowler

Brian Gross Fine Art is pleased to announce the San Francisco debut of New York artist Adam Fowler opening Thursday, May 3 with a reception for the artist on Saturday, May 5 from 4-6pm. Hide/Reveal features Fowler’s precise cut paper constructions that are comprised of layered, gestural drawings. The exhibition will be on view through June 30, 2012. Adam Fowler’s drawings are formed through a meticulous and meditative process. Putting thought to paper, Fowler begins with the drawing of gestural lines in graphite on multiple sheets of paper. In a painstaking process, Fowler cuts away the negative space around and between each linear network and then layers the sheets of paper to create highly complex multi-layered compositions.

Hide/Reveal marks Fowler’s fifth solo exhibition nationwide and his first solo exhibition in San Francisco. The works included in Hide/Reveal feature Fowler’s signature drawings that push the boundary of drawing by physically overlapping layers of meticulously cut graphite drawings. Playing with the saturation of the graphite marks on paper, Fowler accentuates the complicity in texture and form in his lighter works such as Untitled (two layers), 2011, and the competition of surface and structure in his darker works such as Untitled (three layers), 2012. Oriented vertically or horizontally, the size of the works is 18.5 by 23 inches to 22 by 35.5 inches. Infused with rhythm and complexity of composition, Adam Fowler’s drawings play with tone, texture, line, and depth.

Adam Fowler was born in Fairfax, VA and received his BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, in 2001. Fowler was featured in Slash, Paper Under the Knife, an exhibition celebrating the one-year anniversary of the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY, in 2009, and in LineAge at The Drawing Center, New York, NY in 2005. Fowler has been the recipient of numerous awards and grants including the New York Foundation for the Arts, Fellowship in Drawing in 2011; The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, New York, NY in 2011; and the Young Artist Program Grant, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Washington, DC in 2004. His work is found in numerous private and corporate collections throughout the U.S. Fowler currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

For more information or visuals, please contact Charlotte Miller, Assistant Director, at (415) 788-1050 or gallery@briangrossfineart.com.

Reception for the artist: Saturday, May 5, 4-6pm

Brian Gross Fine Art
49 Geary Street, 5th Floor San Francisco
Gallery hours: Tuesday-Friday 11-5:30pm; Saturday 11-5pm
Admission free

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