"Color as Structure"
Timothy Callaghan, Don Kimes, Valerie Molnar, and Richard RothSeptember 15 - October 17, 2009
Opening Reception: Tuesday September 15, 6-8pm
One of the exciting things about doing a project like this is the gift of being able to view work through one's own particular lens, in this case how color has ordered the work of a varied group of artists. Timothy Callaghan, Don Kimes, Valerie Molnar, and Richard Roth all share a concern for color as a way of structuring their work by either building or maintaining a framework, or through the creation of hierarchies or systems of organization. That they also share a concern for historical paradigms, visual culture and everyday life is also apparent, as is the lack of a shared point of view.
For Valerie Molnar and Don Kimes it is the actual construction and destruction of the physical manifestation of color-as-structure that the work is built upon. For Molnar, each color-infused thread, stitch by stitch, becomes a network of units producing a buoyant, cheerful formalism. For Don Kimes the color structure deals with recovery and reinvention, resurrection and recreation--- the image literally regenerated by nature and intention. One can clearly see the color codes referencing the ubiquity of visual culture in the 21st century in Richard Roth’s “object” paintings whose existence as a personal, ideal ‘collection’ is carefully controlled and maintained by the artist. And in Timothy Callaghan’s contemporary ‘plein air’ paintings which are built on a platform shaped by flattened color space and are descriptive of a daily life of leisure, consumption, and politics one can see these color structures and frameworks as a scaffold upon which the image is ultimately constructed.
Julie Langsam
September 2009
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FREDERIEKE TAYLOR GALLERY
535 West 22nd Street, 6th Floor
New York, NY 10011
t. 646.230.0992
www.frederieketaylorgallery.com
www.frederieketaylorgallery.blogspot.com
Opening Reception: Tuesday September 15, 6-8pm
One of the exciting things about doing a project like this is the gift of being able to view work through one's own particular lens, in this case how color has ordered the work of a varied group of artists. Timothy Callaghan, Don Kimes, Valerie Molnar, and Richard Roth all share a concern for color as a way of structuring their work by either building or maintaining a framework, or through the creation of hierarchies or systems of organization. That they also share a concern for historical paradigms, visual culture and everyday life is also apparent, as is the lack of a shared point of view.
For Valerie Molnar and Don Kimes it is the actual construction and destruction of the physical manifestation of color-as-structure that the work is built upon. For Molnar, each color-infused thread, stitch by stitch, becomes a network of units producing a buoyant, cheerful formalism. For Don Kimes the color structure deals with recovery and reinvention, resurrection and recreation--- the image literally regenerated by nature and intention. One can clearly see the color codes referencing the ubiquity of visual culture in the 21st century in Richard Roth’s “object” paintings whose existence as a personal, ideal ‘collection’ is carefully controlled and maintained by the artist. And in Timothy Callaghan’s contemporary ‘plein air’ paintings which are built on a platform shaped by flattened color space and are descriptive of a daily life of leisure, consumption, and politics one can see these color structures and frameworks as a scaffold upon which the image is ultimately constructed.
Julie Langsam
September 2009
--
FREDERIEKE TAYLOR GALLERY
535 West 22nd Street, 6th Floor
New York, NY 10011
t. 646.230.0992
www.frederieketaylorgallery.com
www.frederieketaylorgallery.blogspot.com
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