Pattern Pulp

Tuesday's Gallery Picks




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Taker a closer look at time and movement through these six exhibitions…

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1. Susan Siegel inserts a cast of animal-human hybrids into her intimate, delicate paintings inspired by 18th Century masters at Sloan Fine Art
2. Fresh Paint encompasses a wealth of dynamic and vibrant stylistic approaches to Contemporary painting, each one presenting a distinct, very personal and entirely organic approach to the practice at Lazarides Rathbone
3. Jackie Meier’s “Razzmatazz” explodes with color at Nancy Margolis Gallery
4. Cassandra Smith is fascinated by the dichotomy between organic and geometric shapes, the contrast between natural and synthetic at Sky High Gallery
5. With her new series of energetic works on paper, Simone Shubuck considers our relationship with the past and acknowledges that oftentimes what we think of as “new” are really old ideas re-imagined, recycled or “knocked off.” at Taylor Cordoba
6. The striking female forms in Simon Birch‘s Hooligan bear the imprint of an invisible force, as though someone hurled them through space and punched them into the frame at Ben Brown Fine Arts

New York: Fossilized Art




We admired Greg Hopkins’ work a few summers ago, when the artist created intricate pieces that resembled layers of peeling wallpaper. His new collection of work maintains his obsession with color, process and pattern with an evolved look. Through a series of layered stencils that he’s painted, peeled, and painted over again, Hopkin’s reinvented his creative wheel. He compares this distinctive process to fossil creation, “It reminds me of the way fossils aren’t old bones from dead animals, but stone that has replaced the bone as minerals migrate through layers of sediment. My paintings begin as temporary ink drawings that are, layer by layer, replaced by a permanent material as the final image is revealed.”

The lines and patterns in this collection of work are influenced by the likes of Navajo rugs, Amish quilts, video games, wallpaper, comic books and illuminated manuscripts. While clearly work intensive and thoroughly composed, his work retains preserved drips of paint to reflect an element of decay, entropy and time.

Sloan Fine Art
128 Rivington Street
New York, NY 10002

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