Margaret Evangeline
William Brovelli
Moon Beom
Sydney Blum
Kwang-Young Chun
Christian Faur
Jay Fine
Augustus Goertz
Paul Glabicki
Sherry Karver
Mark Kessell
John Kirchner
Sarah Leahy
D. Dominick Lombardi
Shigeru Oyatani
Antonio Petracca
Louis Renzoni
Jacques Roch
Diane Samuels
Scott Sherk
E.E. Smith
Stan Smokler
Jim Toia
Susan Wides
Gerald Wolfe
November 19 - December 17, 2005
To view the work of Augustus Goertz and Stan Smokler is to become re-acquainted with the roots of modern art. Both artists found their vocation and medium early on, bypassing fashionable postmodern trends.
Goertz belongs to the tradition of Color Field painters that pushed towards purer abstraction. What Goertz brings to this tradition is a willingness to experiment with new granulated material. His palette is earthy and urban as he exploits a wide variety of effects, from celestial mists of color to an impasto applied so thickly it almost qualifies as relief. In several of the paintings, alternating bands of dark and light pigment create a trompe l'oeil of deep ridges.
A scavenger of discarded objects of our urban culture, Smokler gathers relics and reworks the material into steel abstract assemblages. Inspired by such masters as David Smith and Anthony Caro, Smokler's playful yet sophisticated sculptures capture a genuine spontaneity through welded steel. The new work makes reference to architecture and its deconstructed elements. Smokler offers us steel assemblages that challenge viewers' expectation of balance, creating sculptures that in effect deny their own weight.
Though they work in radically dissimilar mediums, Goertz and Smokler share affinities in their approach and aesthetic.
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