Colby Currie: Paintings
Main Gallery
Currie’s paintings come about through iterations of process and material. These iterations as seen through mereological thinking and self-rules create series of paintings that can be seen as parts and wholes. Each part is a study of its individuality and its relationship to the whole and a sort of versioning of painting itself. Using traditional materials such as oil paint, rabbit skin glue, linen, canvas, and stretchers, these components are the tools and the process themselves. Mark making occurs through combinations of stains, smears, and inversions with a variety of paints, primers, and glues. This series following up previous works – “Found Surfaces” have derived the following “Paintings.”
Artist:
Colby Currie (b. 1982, Amarillo, Texas) earned an MFA in Painting from the University of North Texas and a BFA in Painting and Drawing from West Texas A&M. With over 20 years of studio practice Currie has exhibited his works and garnered a following both nationally and internationally.
Udona Boerema
Second Gallery
Ephemerality, volatility, transience and transformation are dynamic terms that can be experienced in a landscape but also in the process of painting. It is a delicate process in which the the material of the canvas, the consistency of the paint, the manual gestures in which the brushes are used, all emerge to create its own meaning. All those elements merge into a figurative illusion in which the paint evaporates into a cloud or a rock but the rock also evaporates into the realities of only the paint, canvas and gestures.
That is my intention when painting: transfiguration.
As a canvas for my paintings I use unprepared, course linen whereby the texture of the linen emerges through the painted parts of the painting. By preparing the linen with transparent grounder, I can regulate the amount of paint that gets absorbed by the linen. I use acrylic based paint that I dilute liberally with water. By doing this, I can achieve the transparency and layering quality that is evident in my paintings but also the qualities of maneuverability and especially the ephemerality and the transience of those landscapes.
Artist:
Udona Boerema (b. 1982, Groningen, The Netherlands) attended Academic Minerva in Groningen (NL) and received her BFA for painting at AKI/ArtEZ Academy of Fine Art in Enschede (NL). Recent exhibitions include: Art Center, Hengelo, NL (2018); Gray Contemporary, Houston, TX (2017); and Bedrijfs Technologisch Centrum, Enschede, NL (UT) (2014).
