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"His reliance on the grid anchors his work to the architecture of the canvas, as his saturated color palette recalls the tawdry glamour of Los Angeles, the artists’ home. " -Robert Overby: Paintings from the 80's <a href="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7241/6909997260_9cfe38e6d8_b.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7241/6909997260_9cfe38e6d8_b.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 700px; height: 775px;" /></a> "if they could see me now, booming and zooming, if they could see me now, booming and zooming" <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFnGJPI-Wa0" style="font-style: italic;"> (here) </a> <a href="http://fredericksfreisergallery.com/exhibitions/current/image_14.html">Fredericks & Freiser</a> and <a href="http://andrewkreps.com/index.html">Andrew Kreps Gallery </a>are pleased to collaborate on an exhibition of Robert Overby’s late paintings. Paintings from the 80’s will include a selection of Overby’s large-scale works that constitute the artist’s last major series. Beginning in 1969, Robert Overby (1935–1993) produced an eclectic body of work that was rarely exhibited in his lifetime. Despite a diversity of mediums and an equally wide range of subject matter, Overby returned consistently to the human form. His polyurethane stretches and ghost-like latex casts of walls and doors belong to the history of late 60’s and early 70’s experiments in anti-form, process art, and post-minimalism. His 1980’s image paintings are post Pop combinations of figure and abstraction that explore similar issues of surface, decay, and the skin between the real and its incorporeal other. Overby’s paintings recall both the acuity of renaissance-style painting and that of graphic design. His reliance on the grid anchors his work to the architecture of the canvas, as his saturated color palette recalls the tawdry glamour of Los Angeles, the artists’ home. Simultaneously culled from high-end fashion magazines and pornography, the women of Overby’s quasi-figurative paintings are disembodied from the forms they suggest. Additionally, the shapes that impose themselves upon their bodies and faces further enhance this sense of removal. ----------------

"His reliance on the grid anchors his work to the architecture of the canvas, as his saturated color palette recalls the tawdry glamour...

new works by Abel Auer "They are dream worlds, parallel worlds, contrary to the artist’s own urban living environment." <div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6047/6346134583_e94849ba49_b.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6047/6346134583_e94849ba49_b.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 800px; height: 638px;" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div>Abel Auer: In the future till 10 December 2010 at <a href="http://www.sieshoeke.com/exhibitions/abel-auer-2011" style="font-weight: bold;">Sies + Hoke</a> "The American philosopher David K. Lewis says that everything we can think of inherently contains the possibility of existence. Abel Auer goes one step further. He constitutes a possible world not only on the intellectual level, he shows it to the viewer in his paintings. The question of whether this world is parallel, alternative or contrary to ours remains unanswered. The unshakable duration of this reality is based on his use of unreal colors, bizarre shapes and distorted perspectives, culminating in the borders of arabesque crochets.  .. Sentimentalism and nostalgia are manifest in his paintings, the longing and the substitute for a lost nature. At once they are personal and reaching to an universal level of human understanding. The figures creeping through fantastic landscapes are reminiscent of heroic characters in the works of Poe, Kafka, Baudelaire or Ensor’s paintings. The strange other-worldliness and unity of the self-contained, hermetic world is drawing the viewer into the narrative, testing his or her sensitivity.  Abel Auer’s images are an exploration of 19th Century landscape painting... They are dream worlds, parallel worlds, contrary to the artist’s own urban living environment." <a href="http://www.sieshoeke.com/exhibitions/abel-auer-2011" style="font-style: italic;">all text taken from here..</a> --------------------

new works by Abel Auer "They are dream worlds, parallel world s , contrary to the artist’s own urban living environment." Abel A...

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