Chelsea Gallery Shows in November/December, Part 2
Nov 28th, 2007 by Brad
Painter Michelle Hinebrook has a show called “Enveloped” at FOLEYgallery (547 W 27th Street, 5th flr). This show runs till 5-Jan. At a large scale these works have a very organic composition that shows structures that look like microscopic images of the interiors of the human body. At a more intimate distance they have tessellated appearance. These geometric patterns curve and flow to give the surfaces a dimensionality.
Her artist statement says, “These new spatial structures are composed of warping grids over undulating organic surfaces that seem to both breathe and contract simultaneously. … Influenced by architecture, macro-microscopic pattern structures found in data and nature, computer graphics, cartography, and schematics these paintings are both structural and bodily portraits.”
In the back room you can also see the work of Doug Keyes “Collective Memory.” Doug is based in Seattle and I saw some of his recent work at Photolucida 2006 portfolio review. Sorry I don’t have any images of his, please go to the FOLEYGallery website and take a look. In 2007, Keyes won the Project Competition Juror’s Choice Award from Sante Fe Photographic Workshops.
In this series, Doug takes a huge number of multiple exposures (yes images of every page of an entire book and renders that into a single image. Some amazing structures and patterns are revealed in this process. The press release states, “These portraits are abstract representations that visually intimate the accumulation of information over time.”
Above is a sample of Mark Sheinkman’s show at Von Lintel Gallery (555 West 25th) had some interesting new work. This show ended 24-Nov, the day I saw it. I really enjoy the triptych whose image I show in this blog. I had the image of myself sitting with a cat and both of us just visually following the curves for hours.
Critic Michael Amy wrote in the exhibition’s catalog. “Sheinkman now explores volume, transition, change, velocity and ephemerality, in ways he was not previously prepared to do Mark Sheinkman’s selective historical outlook provides him with the tools that are required to persuasively proclaim the ongoing relevance of abstract painting.â€
Jill Moser has a show “New Paintings” at Lennon, Weinberg Inc. (514 West 25th Street) that runs until 8-Dec. These paintings are interesting explorations of line and form. You can see a view of the work in the gallery below.
The press release states, “The deep space carved by Moser’s looping, repeating, rhythmic line punctures the ground and establishes a velvety void at the areas where lines converge and give over their identity as line to form.”
At the end of the day we went into Tia Pol tapas bar (205 10th Ave) in Chelsea. One of Andrea’s commercial clients recommended this little spot that the both of us had walked by many times. Her client has great culinary cred and it was a bit chilly so we decided to check it out. I recommend it.
They have a good wine selection and some very tasty tapas. What a wonderfully stop after seeing lots of galleries. We could chill and get into some fun discussions about the work we looked at earlier in the day. We started out with a few and ordered more, as is the tapas way. We also tried their sangria but for our tastes we prefer the sangria at Portland’s Andina (1314 NW Glisan St, Portland, OR) a bit more.
Yesterday I covered other galleries so see that posting for more art…
