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Color
GABRIELE EVERTZ writes of her work: “Color is a force of energy. It becomes visible when it strikes a surface. Then it can be measured and named. The visible is a living sensation where seeing, thinking and feeling converge.”
ROBERT SWAIN writes of his work: “Color is a form of energy…that stimulates perceptual processes and is instrumental in conveying emotions.” Recently the subject of a major exhibition at the Santa Monica Museum of Art curated by Jeffrey Uslip, Chief Curator, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis.
SANFORD WURMFELD is a scholar of color relationships and an exacting technician in the execution of his paintings, yet he summarizes his work with the mantra: “There should be soul in every painting, no matter what you do.”
All three of these painters share a passion for color, for geometry, and for precision, but the strength of the work is in the emotion their works create. It is this strength that is, in the end, the true focus of this exhibition.
Also showing in the Project Space is VANITAS, an exhibition of work by MATTHEW DELEGET, founder and director of Minus Space Gallery. Matthew has exhibited his work nationally and internationally. His work was included in the 2014 Whitney Biennial and is in the collection of the Saint Louis Art Museum. Matthew writes regarding the Vanitas paintings:
“For this exhibition, I am presenting a suite of new monochrome paintings made of enamel spray paint on canvas and highly decorative frames. The works fuse painting and its formal presentation into a single visual experience and examine perceived issues of taste and authority within the theater of an exhibition space. These works were specifically informed by Dutch vanitas/still life painting of the 16th-17th centuries, Piet Mondrian’s neoplastic paintings from the 1920s-1940s, and the Radical Painting Group active in NYC during the 1970s-1980s.”