The exhibition, Painted Perfect, featuring Kadar Brock, Chris Dorland, Jason Gringler, Matt Jones, Brendan Lynch, Peter Sutherland, and Wendy White questions materiality and painterly abstraction. While opening new qualities, meanings, and experiences free frosm selective interpretation, the artists place value on both the freedom and confines of process. Constructing or deconstructing with alternative or unconventional materials such as sand, wax, glue, glass, or components of photography, the exhibition focuses on works that are manipulated to develop painterly aesthetics; where industrial elements are displaced from their usual function thus consigning a path from stability to expressive substance.

The demanding physical processes of creation for artists like Kadar Brock and Jason Gringler imply involvement with time and irreversibility, allowing for erratic or irregular dispositions produced by acts as pouring, sanding, cutting or smashing. With careful application and calculated experimentation, Chris Dorland and Brendan Lynch, Peter Sutherland, and Wendy White use accumulation and distribution to distinguish subtleness and textural characteristics.

Painted Perfect, a contradiction in term, celebrates a new age of objectivity in object, material, abstraction, painting and process.

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ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Kadar Brock: Born New York, NY 1980 and lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Kadar creates new paints from older cast-off or reconsidered works, white washing them, scraping and sanding away their presence so the fluorescent ghosts of previous years peek through a milky surface, while serendipitous over-sanding opens holes and dredges new beliefs. Along with exhibitions at Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Indianapolis, IN, Hudson Valley Center of Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY, and Leo Koenig, NY; most recently with Vigo Gallery, London, The Hole, NY, and Brand New Gallery, Milan. ArtForum, ArtInfo, Artnet.com, Dazed and Confused, and many more have reviewed his work.

Chris Dorland: Born in 1978 in Montreal Canada. He lives and works in New York City. Dorland received his BFA Summa Cum Laude, Painting, at Purchase College in 2002. His paintings, based on a variety of sourced imagery ranging from 1960′s architecture to present day pop detritus, combine a technique of scraping, spraying, rolling and printing paint to create a hallucinatory and entropic body of work. Dorland has work in the collection of the The Whitney Museum of American Art and has shown at various galleries including The Suburban, Oak Park, IL, Gasser Grunert, NY, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, LA, Rhona Hoffman, Chicago IL, Marianne Boesky, NY and White Flag Projects, St-Louis MI and Valentina Bonomo, Rome and Sikkema Jenkins, NY to name a few. His work has been reviewed in the New York Times, Whitewall, Wallpaper, ArtInfo, Artnet and many more.

Jason Gringler: Born in Toronto, Canada, 1978. He works and lives in New York and Toronto. Art and Desing at Ontario University (1997-2001). As Gringler explains, “Another part of my practice involves the canablization of larger works. Photos of my studio and plexiglas works are cut and reassembled to produce small collage pieces, which become the basis for the new large scale works with plexi… The source and the result simultaneously become the same and different, the original becomes lost as the language moves in a cyclical fashion. Gringler has exhibited most notably with Brand New Gallery, Milan, Galerie Stefan Röpke, Cologne and Anna Kustera, NY. His work has been reviewed in publications such as Flash Art, Financial Times, and ArtInfo.

Matt Jones: Born in 1980, Rochester, New York. lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Jones received his BFA from The Cooper Union, was awarded the Vera T. Carroll Prize for Painting, and attended the Yale Norfolk Summer School of Painting. Jones works between a variety of inter-related genres that explore astronomy, theoretical physics, ancient history, and comedy – all developed and inspired by research and personal experience. Together his bodies of work form a way for Jones to interact with, evaluate, negotiate, and play with the world around him. Jones work has been reviewed in Purple Diary, I-D, and NY Art Magazine, Art Net, The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Paper Magazine to name a few. Jones has exhibited internationally and continues to work with The Hole (New York) and Anonymous Gallery (Mexico City).

Brendan Lynch: Born in Los Angeles in 1985, Brendan Lynch lives and works in New York, where he’s involved in the “artists’ organization, The Still House Group. (www.enterstillhouse.com). Brendan Lynch is a conceptual artist working across media. Surf wax paintings, tie-dyed paintings and sculptures, examining things that are a part of Lynch’s life but also the source of investigating the culture he grew up in and the future of his generation’s relationship to objects. Selected shows include Here Comes, Mark Fletcher Gallery, 2012, Sentimental Education, Gavlak Gallery, Palm Beach, 2011; New York Minute, Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow, 2011; It Ain’t Fair, OHWOW, Miami, 2010; Press Release, Martos gallery, New York, 2010; While it Lasts, Still House studio, New York, 2010; Still House, Rental Gallery, New York, 2009; The Open, Deitch Projects, Long Island City, NY, 2009.

Peter Sutherland: Born in 1976, Ann Arbor, MI. Lives and works in New York. Sutherland works in different mediums, producing thought provoking imagery in a non-indexical manner at the same time following one thematic thought. His work is honest, a reflection of life as a young American, fragments of urban degradation, exposes the happy accidents that make life interesting, capturing the hidden beauty of ordinary objects and everyday situations. He’s released several publications and films, most recently Buck Shots {powerHouse books} and Tierney Gearon: The Mother Project {Zeitgeist Films}. Sutherland has shown in group exhibitions at Canada Gallery/NY, Circleculture Gallery/Berlin, V1 Gallery/Copenhagen and the traveling Tiny Vices show, curated by Tim Barber. His solo exhibitions have been on view Gallery Target, Tokyo, at Still House Gallery, NY, and Half Gallery, NY.

Wendy White: Born 1971 in Deep River, CT, lives and works in New York, NY. Creating sculptural painting hybrids White walks the line between abstraction and real world reference, between gestural immediacy and polished construction, marking the language of the urban environment and embracing a provisional aesthetic of materials and utilitarian supports. Solo exhibitions include Leo Koenig Inc, NY; Galeria Moriarty, Spain; Van Horn, Germany; University of Tennessee, Chattanooga; and Andrew Rafacz Gallery, Chicago, IL. Group exhibitions include Hue & Cry, Sotheby’s S|2, NY; Idealizing the Imaginary: Invention and Illusion in Contemporary Painting, Oakland University, Rochester, MI; A Painting Show, Harris Lieberman, NY; Third Thoughts, CCA Andratx, Mallorca, Spain; Borderland Abstraction, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE; So Athletic, Kunstverein Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin, Germany; and Informal Relations, Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Indianapolis, IN. White’s work has been reviewed in ArtForum, Art in America, The New York Times, The Brooklyn Rail, Time Out New York, New York Magazine, BOMB Magazine, and Art Papers. She is included in Phaidon’s anthology Vitamin P2: New Perspectives in Painting with an accompanying essay by Barry Schwabsky. She was the recipient of a 2012 Painting Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts.

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:  

Kadar Brock , Chris Dorland , Jason Gringler , Matt Jones , Wendy White .