Chris Goennawein is an artist who “theorizes” painterly surfaces and the underlying structures that support them. His first exhibition at c.nichols project explores various notions of place wherein the signification of an object wrestles with the process by which it is created. Goennawein’s acrylic paintings on aluminum panels do not overtly suggest theorization however, and are actually quite visually seductive from a painterly point of view, utilizing a completely flat picture plane and deliberately chalky palette, however one can certainly tease out an “Aristotelian” impulse lurking just beneath the surface.

Chris Goennawein: No Wrap For My Candy
c.nichols project
12613 Venice Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 9000
Show runs through October 10, 2015