02.01 2012

Double Dose of Duos. Here and There.

This Friday please join us in two places at once for two sets of duo exhibitions

Here:

Tom Bubul
Michael W Hall
“Other Ways In”
Paintings etc.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mike and I have been working together for nine years; as the band OSPREYS, as a drawing club, and as a decision-making team through 2008, when I left Philadelphia for Providence. “Other Ways In” presents our painting together for the first time. The title of this show refers to gaining access to unusual areas via atypical entrances.

Mike’s recent work builds up bars of color in step-gradients into curving forms, and grids those within interrupting blank spaces. It’s difficult for me to divorce a viewing of his paintings from my awareness of his maniacal interest in freight trains; his mind-meltingly patient rendering will immediately seem familiar to anyone who’s ever sat for a long-ass time trying to catch out, and the austerity of his designs is in direct contrast to the hidden, filthy chaos of train yards, sidings and jungles. The way he designs space suggests a hole in a fence that you can probably get through.

Lately my painting has been to