I overheard two artists in the gallery chatting about the deluge of abstraction that’s been around and one quipped to the other that abstraction flourishes in conservative times. Hard edge abstraction seemed to be the one to take a look at as it’s probably the most ubiquitous and the one that tends to get the most formal.
Douglas Melini, Fusi-Form, 2010 June 23 – August 6, 2011 from fall 05 to fall 06 i went to a shrink to help figure my way thru some anxiety i was experiencing. the two things from that shrinking that i continue to reflect upon are process resistant / outcome resistant and from a long winded rambling about my range of sexual interests, the amusing awareness of a parallel between that and my gallery’s exhibition program. [...]
Anonymous, Legend: The Birth of Speech near Jodhpur, Rajasthan, 2008 March 4-27, 2010 These small paintings are made anonymously in India by practitioners of Tantra, some of whom are artists, to represent and embody principles of Tantra. Viewing or meditating on these reductive and essential images stimulates specific mental and / or spiritual experiences. While they are centuries old with highly codified forms and colors, they exude such a high level of the artists’ intentionality [...]
