Chuck Webster: Oh My Soul

Chuck Webster’s Oh My Soul will feature a sequence of oil paintings that explore the natural world filtered through a peculiar editorial apparatus, so that unique organic abstractions made of fluid line and lush color contrasts morph into every day familiars. Often the paintings begin with a sort of friendly excision, removing a particular line or shape from an existing work of art or object. Through Webster’s translation, simple forms are glorified to near elemental status, often revolving around such purely natural phenomena as earth, water, fire. As Craig Olson wrote:

Whatever else Webster’s devotional pictures may be, they are undoubtedly pictures of love. A love wrought from meditation that expands outward from the individual to an intuitive vastness, reaching that place within the caverns between our highly specialized senses. It brings to mind new approaches to understanding perception— that seeing is not a purely visual experience, but one in which the mind and body react simultaneously with both learned and instinctual responses. It’s where seeing isn’t really believing, but where it becomes a function of a more essential, unseen harmony.(The Brooklyn Rail, October 2007)

In 2008, ZieherSmith and PictureBox Inc. published Chuck Webster / Eddie Martinez, a two-volume set featuring both solo works by Webster as well as collaborative pieces with Eddie Martinez. Webster’s work has recently been displayed in group exhibitions at Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Fred, Leipzig; Daniel Weinberg, Los Angeles; and de Pury & Luxembourg, Zurich, among others. His paintings will be featured in Phaidon Press’s forthcoming book, Painting Abstraction, by Bob Nickas, scheduled for 2009 publication. He lives and works in Brooklyn and Binghamton, New York.

Ziehersmith



David Salow Gallery

SISTER CORITA KENT / GARDAR EIDE EINARSSON / MARIUS ENGH / MATIAS FALDBAKKEN / HANS-PETER FELDMANN / JOHN HEARTFIELD / DAMIEN HIRST / ALEX HUBBARD / EDVARD MUNCH / RICHARD PRINCE / RAYMOND PETTIBON / JOSH SMITH / OSCAR TUAZON / FRANZ WEST / CURATED BY MIKKEL E. ASTRUP AND EIVIND FURNESVIK
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13.11.-13.12.2008 / PREVIEW: THURSDAY 13.11.2008 / 19.00-21.00

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Standard Oslo

Samuel Franqois
A.L.I.C.E Gallery

States of Matter:::
Andersen

Nils Erik Gjerdevik

When GL STRAND on the 8th of November 2008 opens its doors to a new exhibition by
Nils Erik Gjerdevik, the spectator will experience a total installation consisting of
paintings, drawings and ceramic sculptures, made especially for GL STRAND’s 3rd floor.

For a number of years and within the realms of painting formal circumstances in relation
to the creation of images inspired by the possibilities in new digital image production has
been a focal point. Nils Erik Gjerdevik has positioned himself centrally over a longer
period of years in the form of highly original contributions to the analysis and exploration
of these very issues. He is working on an ongoing study of the many possible forms of
abstraction, which has been introduced especially through art history. His distinctive work
with the modes of presentation in non-figurative paintings has also resulted in a
gradual approximation of painting and drawing, which has induced that the non-figurative
universe is in constant genesis in two directions: Inwards towards an imaginary universe
and outwards towards physical abstraction.

In his new works Gjerdevik has used GL STRAND’s distinctive architecture and exhibition
space. Everything has been adjusted to suit this old bourgeois house with a mounting
that goes to the very edge – work edge, floor edge, wall edge and ceiling. In terms of
motifs Gjerdevik seeks to break up the framework through new explorations of the
seemingly endless tactile and optic qualities of the non-figurative.

Gl. Strand

Metro Pictures Gallery

Olaf Breuning

Nils Stærk

Looking forward to the show:::
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Friday 7 November 2008, 5-8pm Overgaden Institute of Contemporary Art invites you to the opening of a solo exhibition by Tove Storch and the international group exhibition Technically Sweet, curated by Yvette Brackman og Maria Finn.

Overgaden



Nobuya Hoki
The gallery is pleased to announce the opening of our new exhibition space in Kyoto.
We’re currently preparing for the opening exhibition, “Nobuya Hoki”.

Please join us to celebrate the opening of Taka Ishii Gallery, Kyoto.
Nobuya Hoki Born in 1966, a graduate from the Kyoto City University of Arts (MFA, painting), Hoki lives and works in Kyoto. He has been included in numerous international exhibitions focusing on emerging Japanese artists such as Roppongi Crossing, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (2004), rapt!, Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne (2006), and Mindscape Museum, Okazaki (2007). Hoki’s highly developed, precisely articulated works have attracted increasing attention in recent years.

In his earlier pictorial representations, Hoki utilized two “freehand” drawing techniques, consisting of “a point (a dot)” and/or “the line.” Hoki’s present approach involves the use of a two-pronged drawing device resulting in what Hoki describes as “double line drawing”. Using this double line technique, Hoki creates an expansive plane, the simple single colorful line complicated by a shifting of colors creating a completely new type of pictured relief.
“Just by looking at the surface, divided by only line, one can see a difference in weight, context and movement.” In other words, he develops his original approach of creating “a single layer made multilayer within a single layer” by the use of dots and distance of the density of lines.

We will exhibit three large size paintings (oil on aluminum), and two large drawings. Please have a look at our new space to see the beauty of the dynamic, handmade drawings Hoki creates without a draft.

Taka Ishii Gallery