This past Thursday was the opening of my three-person exhibition at Blank Space in New York City. I dropped by the space right after we arrived by train and I was pleased with the show. The other two artists, Antoinette Wysocki and Gary Abernathy, produced colorful and intense abstract paintings. The paintings were relatively large – especially when compared to mine – measuring probably 30″ x 40″ at the smallest. I believe each artist had 3-4 pieces on display. I, on the other hand, showed much smaller reductive works. I had 13 pieces total, all but one measuring 12″ x 12″. The other was 16″ x 16″.
As you’ll see in the pictures below, my work provided quite the contrast to the other paintings in the show. The gallery made the right call in hanging my work effectively opposite of Antoinette’s and Gary’s paintings. I think it provided an interesting contrast of scale, form, color and use of line. Perhaps most striking was the contrast of the density in their paintings juxtaposed with the sparseness of my own.
The opening was very well attended with people being in the space when I arrived at approximately 6:10pm. The gallery stayed packed for the entire two hours. In all honesty, there were more people at this opening reception than at the rest of my openings this year combined. It was quite energizing to be around such interest in art.
I was pleased to get the chance to meet several great artists who I’ve only known through the web: Don Voisine, Debra Ramsay, and Karen Schifano. It was also great to see old friends: Trish Tillman, Matthew Langley and Chris Rywalt.
OK, so enough with the name dropping. Let’s get to some images:
The work of Wysocki on left, Abernathy on right
Two Wysockis on left, Abernathy on right
Wysocki
Wysocki
One Wysocki on left, three Abernathy’s on right
Abernathy
My work: two pieces from Fracture on left, ten pieces from Subspaces on right
Subspaces
Subspaces
Subspaces
As you may have noticed, the images above only show 12 of my pieces. The thirteenth piece is hanging over the reception area and was not easy to photograph well. However, should you be able to see the show, please check out that work. It’s my favorite in the show.
I am extremely grateful for the opportunity provided by Blank Space to show my work alongside two strong artists and I’m excited for so many of my NYC friends to be able to see my work in person. If you are able to see the show during its run (closes Dec. 10th), please let me know what you thought.
Thanks!
