Stan Narten
dal 8/4/2009 al 8/5/2009
Segnalato da
8/4/2009
Stan Narten
Kravets/Wehby Gallery, New York
New Paintings. Narten's meticulous paintings are at once abstract and figurative. Starting with selected television and film stills, mostly cult material from the 1980s and 1990s, he manipulates the imagery by digitally cutting up and carefully re-ordering the pieces to create a new image.
The Kravets/Wehby Gallery is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of
new paintings by Stan Narten opening on Thursday, April 9 and running
through May 9, 2009.
Stan Narten's meticulous paintings are at once abstract and
figurative. Starting with selected television and film stills, mostly
cult material from the 1980s and 1990s Stan manipulates the imagery by
digitally cutting up and carefully re-ordering the pieces to create a
new image. The scenes he culls are often of fleeting dramatic, macabre
moments. From here a transcendent painting emerges with depth and
movement, emotion and life. The painting re-authenticates, re-forms
and congeals the subject into a wholly new adaptation while distinctly
retaining elements of the original image.
Stan often incorporates various forms of glitches that interfere with
the dimensionality of the surface, and reference 'floaters', 'seeing
stars' or other interruptions to the way we see. Viewing the paintings
creates a type of involuntary pareidolia which is a psychological
phenomenon involving vague and random sounds being perceived as
significant. The mind is trained to see human and animal forms in
indistinct visual information, like a bat in a Rorschach test, or the
Virgin Mary in a slice of toast. The differentiation between what is
interpreted and what actually exists is elusive.
Stan Narten is a 2008 graduate from the School of Visual Arts in New
York. This will be his first solo exhibition at the gallery.
Opening reception: Thursday, April 9, 6-8pm
Kravets/Wehby Gallery
521 West 21st Street - New York
Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday 11-6 pm
Free admission