George Thiewes
dal 4/9/2008 al 4/10/2008
Segnalato da
4/9/2008
George Thiewes
Evo Gallery, Santa Fe
Penumbra in White. For his new show, artist has created a body of white sculptures, painted the same color as the gallery walls. Mounted on or in the wall, the sculptures, as large as ten feet long, appear barely visible as their shadows take on penumbrous form.
Sculptor George Thiewes has developed a practice of creating elegant, minimal black sculptures that appear to advance and recede with perceptual fluidity. With rare attention to craft, Thiewes cuts, welds, grinds, and paints these works himself. Installation and lighting are critical to the artist, who uses shadow as a central element in his aesthetic vocabulary.
For his new show, Thiewes has created a body of white sculptures, painted the same color as the gallery walls. Mounted on or in the wall, the sculptures, as large as ten feet long, appear barely visible as their shadows take on penumbrous form. First coined by Johannes Kepler in his astronomical meditations, penumbra refers to the mysterious degrees of shadows emanating from an illuminated, opaque body, such as the shadows of the moon during an eclipse.
Thiewes explores this painterly phenomenon using light and shadow on sculptural form within an architectural space with uniquely poetic results that are paradoxically powerful and subtle. Penumbra in White is Thiewes's second show at EVO Gallery.
Reception September 6 5 to 7pm
EVO Gallery
554 South Guadalupe Street, Santa Fe