Please join us at Autonomie
for PAINTING ON EDGE on
Saturday July
28th, from 7:30 to 10:30pm. This survey of 18 plus works provides a
contemporary response to the issues raised in "The Painting Factory" at
MOCA grand, just around the corner from Autonomie.
Painting on Edge
Curated by Grant Vetter
Opening: July 28th, 7:30-10:30pm.
Painting
on Edge is a small survey of new trends in Hard Edge painting, or what might be
better called, painting with edges, lines, stripes and bands. Unlike the
ideologically bound practices of modernism and postmodernism, the work in
Painting on Edge shows a new openness towards the fabulation of Hard Edge
painting without a readily identifiable ethos. If there have been three high
moments in the history of Hard Edge painting so far — its founding here in
California, its mutability as a program of making from late Ab-Ex through
Minimalism and its eventual critique by Neo-Geo — then today we see an entirely new
set of sensibilities at play in the genre.
This
is perhaps best represented by the artists in this show that openly mix the
gestural and the graphic, patterns and process, and systems and topology. While
all of the works in this show attempt to rework the geometric tradition in one
way or another, there is nothing dogmatic or orthodox about their approach. As
such, the artists in Painting on Edge are not just challenging traditional
boundaries, but their work sits on the edge of many boarding discourses, caught
somewhere between essentialism and transcendentalism, power and design, a
rigorous application and the production of aesthetic delight. At a time when
cultural production carries so much baggage from the twentieth century, the
artists in Painting on Edge show us another way to travel light in heading for
places unknown, where the journey of making is a delicate balancing act between
absolute precision and unlimited permissions.
Artists in the Show:
Kent Familton
Steve Hampton
Scott Jamieson
Christopher Kuhn
David Leapman
David Michael Lee
Michelle Jane Lee
Joe Lloyd
Kevin Moore
Max Presneill
Alison Rash
Adam Ross
Nano Rubio
Eric Schott
Chris Trueman
Jayson Ward
