First preview article
I just finished my first preview article for CITYBEAT alt weekly mag here in Cincinnati.
Enjoy the preview of the preview
I took the image down because I forgot who took the shot of Winterhalter's paintings, and don't want to come out the gate making anyone upset.
Guy Debord proposed that time is “made of qualitative leaps” existing as choices connected by familiar spectacle. Joseph Winterhalter's "Leaving the 21st Century" acts as a romantic and preparatory look at lived spaces hinting at the uncanny. A subscriber to Derrida and The Situationists, Cincinnati born Winterhalter believes "Anything I ask of a painting is a hell of a lot more than most makers of things should ask."
Through physical and meticulous applications on massive scaled canvases Winterhalter seductively fabricates known spaces with the potentiality of otherness. Representational minimalism and layers of industrial colors scraped back trapped in coats of encaustic wax, paint, enamel, and guttural marks, these abstracted patinas quietly shimmer in melancholic moments. In much the same way that Jasper John's re-enlivened populous imagery by focusing on painting's object-ness, these thirteen intensively worked canvases recall, at times, institutional spaces yet allow the materiality of paint to fall within the seams of perception resting virally in our collective fringes. Residuals of history literally wrap the surface, rewarding viewers through exquisite material dexterity. We may not see the end of the 21st century but these "terminal boundaries" become delightful spaces to investigate. Show runs June 22 - Aug 31 Opening reception June 22 at THE WESTON ART GALLERY. Downtown Cincinnati!
Enjoy the preview of the preview
I took the image down because I forgot who took the shot of Winterhalter's paintings, and don't want to come out the gate making anyone upset.
Guy Debord proposed that time is “made of qualitative leaps” existing as choices connected by familiar spectacle. Joseph Winterhalter's "Leaving the 21st Century" acts as a romantic and preparatory look at lived spaces hinting at the uncanny. A subscriber to Derrida and The Situationists, Cincinnati born Winterhalter believes "Anything I ask of a painting is a hell of a lot more than most makers of things should ask."
Through physical and meticulous applications on massive scaled canvases Winterhalter seductively fabricates known spaces with the potentiality of otherness. Representational minimalism and layers of industrial colors scraped back trapped in coats of encaustic wax, paint, enamel, and guttural marks, these abstracted patinas quietly shimmer in melancholic moments. In much the same way that Jasper John's re-enlivened populous imagery by focusing on painting's object-ness, these thirteen intensively worked canvases recall, at times, institutional spaces yet allow the materiality of paint to fall within the seams of perception resting virally in our collective fringes. Residuals of history literally wrap the surface, rewarding viewers through exquisite material dexterity. We may not see the end of the 21st century but these "terminal boundaries" become delightful spaces to investigate. Show runs June 22 - Aug 31 Opening reception June 22 at THE WESTON ART GALLERY. Downtown Cincinnati!
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