| SEAN WEISGERBER: AFTER I SHED MY SKIN JANUARY 17, 2013 - MARCH 9, 2013 Opening: Thursday, January 17, 7 – 9 PM. The artist will be in attendance Wil Aballe Art Projects is proud to present a solo exhibition of current work by Saskatoon-based artist Sean Weisgerber. Since graduating from the Emily Carr University of Art + Design in 2009, Weisgerber has produced a body of work in which specific modalities of abstract painting have articulated a singular fascination with the relationship between colour, form, material and perception. Typically, his paintings have been defined by opaque colours bounded by hard edges – an uncanny painterly dialect wherein human touch is modulated by a sense of the mechanical. This exhibition sees Weisgerber’s works move away from precision execution, and the subject matter of abstraction and perception, with the mechanical appearing less in the character of the objects presented than in the process of their making. Here, we see stalactites of latex paint, frozen in mid-drip, and suspended from the weave of stretched burlap and wool. Antiseptic chains supporting these objects insinuate their origin in a mechanical process – the repeated immersion of a surface in paint, leading to the development of factures exaggerated, and drawn into grotesque realms. In other works, the fractalization of colour that once appeared on the surface of canvas now appears in a radiating eruption on the gallerist’s living room wall. And while this storm of pigment does not capitulate to the bounds of hard-edged shapes, its chromatic beauty nevertheless does its work within geometric architectural boundaries. Text by Mitch Speed. |
Wil Aballe Art Projects, Gallery + Editions
528 - 2050 Scotia Street @ East 5th Avenue, Vancouver BC
Buzzer 189
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