Running:
RUNNING JUL 22 - AUG 31, 2011
Opening:
Friday July 22 2011 7-11pm
Show & Tell Gallery is pleased to announce a two person exhibition featuring the work of acclaimed American artists James Marshall & Greg Lamarche.
Exhibiting these distinct artists together creates a powerful dynamism based on the collision of James Marshall's graphic geometries with Greg Lamarche's typographic savvy and cut-paper collage technique. The cross-pollination of visual and conceptual traits that occurs when viewing both bodies of work at once produces a new, combined aesthetic that is wholly unlike either Marshall or Lamarche's artistic achievements on their own. That said, it would be an oversight to discount the similar visual and structural methodologies upon which these artists have built their practices.
The works on display, with their robust colours and sinuous lines, are a testament to the leading position Marshall and Lamarche occupy at the frontier of the new abstraction. The current impulse back towards abstracted forms and the spectral buzz of cleverly combined colours is brought to fruition by these artists. What Balance candidly demonstrates is that Marshall and Lamarche are successfully recalibrating the relationship between figure and abstraction without losing the primacy and critical content of their work.
Exhibiting these distinct artists together creates a powerful dynamism based on the collision of James Marshall's graphic geometries with Greg Lamarche's typographic savvy and cut-paper collage technique. The cross-pollination of visual and conceptual traits that occurs when viewing both bodies of work at once produces a new, combined aesthetic that is wholly unlike either Marshall or Lamarche's artistic achievements on their own. That said, it would be an oversight to discount the similar visual and structural methodologies upon which these artists have built their practices.
The works on display, with their robust colours and sinuous lines, are a testament to the leading position Marshall and Lamarche occupy at the frontier of the new abstraction. The current impulse back towards abstracted forms and the spectral buzz of cleverly combined colours is brought to fruition by these artists. What Balance candidly demonstrates is that Marshall and Lamarche are successfully recalibrating the relationship between figure and abstraction without losing the primacy and critical content of their work.
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