Color Fall
William Siegal Gallery
August 29 – September 23, 2014
Opening Reception: Friday, August 29 5 – 7pm
David Ivan Clark, Cornelia Thomsen & Willy Richardson
Color Fall unites three artists whose work addresses verticality in painting. Exhibition ran along side SITE Santa Fe Spread 2014.
David Ivan Clark’s subtle gradations take cues from color-field and monochromatic painting traditions but simultaneously evoke a sense of reductive landscape. Cloudy layers of atmospheric color hover above low horizons blurred as if by fading twilight or rising heat waves.
Willy Richardson’s gestural abstractions take gravity as a constant. Paint is pulled downward in large, loose brush strokes later intertwined with smooth gradient passages and the occasional drip. The result is an energetic dialogue between high and low key color manifest in an array of contrasting brush techniques.
Cornelia Thomsen’s vertical stripe paintings seem impossibly precise. One might mistake them for digital renderings were it not for the edges of the canvas where her painterly process reveals itself. Her perfect lines and seem less gradations are a testament to her masterfully steady hand, while contrasting colors pulled from representational paintings of her past push and pull the eye like a waving curtain – creating a dynamic visual vibration.
William Siegal Gallery in Santa Fe is a high-concept space that exhibits a distinguished collection of ancient art and artifacts alongside contemporary works of art. William Siegal has assembled the world’s largest collection of Andean Textiles dating from 750 BC to the 19th Century. The Gallery is located along Santa Fe’s dynamic Guadalupe Corridor, between downtown and the Railyard district.
William Siegal Gallery
Railyard District
540 South Guadalupe Street
Santa Fe, New Mexico
505.820.3300 | info@williamsiegal.com
The design of this gallery space is based upon the diagram of a central cubic mass set in a clean, modern space. The upper level mezzanine consists of two spaces connected by a bridge. Interior finishes include hard-troweled earth plasters, providing personalized and intimate spaces for the display of ancient and contemporary abstract art.
Other exhibitions at the gallery include: Invitational
One can read about some of the paintings in Kate Beck’s Art notes: Color as it Happens
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