The William Turner Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of Alex Couwenberg’s most recent works in “SuperGlide.”
In this new series of visually exquisite works, Alex Couwenberg utilizes a jazz-like ensemble of color, line and texture to create lyrically engaging, deftly complex compositions. These multi-layered canvases captivate the viewer with the precision of their virtuosic execution, but they are at heart wonderful improvisations – reductive and additive processes drawing upon his intuitive and spontaneous reactions in the moment. Couwenberg simultaneously builds upon and excavates the surfaces of his paintings, constructing an abstract archaeology of his own deeply personal, semiotic patois. Born and raised in Southern California, Couwenberg’s work expresses the seemingly contradictory sensibilities of the region – the love of nature, and its variegated, open-spaced color and light, and, conversely, the embrace of urban architecture, in all of its physical and cultural density.
