Anti-Anti/Non-Non

"Desert Mind," 2009, Jaime Gecker

"Two Tramps in Mud Time," 2007, Matthew Lusk

HAL BROMM

PRESENTS A TWO PART GROUP EXHIBITION

CURATED BY FRAN HOLSTROM

Anti-Anti / Non-Non

April 30 – May 22 / May 27th – June 26

Opening Reception: Thursday, April 29th, 6-9pm

New York, NY “Anti-Anti / Non-Non” is inspired by Ad Reinhardt’s

playful poem “On Negation” which explores how one can define the

inconceivable through a series of subtractions, ultimately reducing

what [it] is through what [it] is NOT. Fifty-some years after Ad

Reinhardt made the “last paintings” artists find themselves in an age

of pluralism where anything goes. This two-part exhibition explores

the work of contemporary artists who re- shape our vision of what art

is and can become.

Part one of the exhibition, “Anti-Anti”, features artists making work

within a formalist framework based on grid, pattern or repetition.

Whether they appear as visual traps, social critique or musings on the

natural world, the works in this show reveal the ageless power of

pattern. Douglas Melini’s mind-bending pattern paintings fold and

expand in a kaleidoscope of bilateral symmetry; Stacy Fisher uses

pattern to tame her amorphous, brightly colored sculptures, and Jack

Featherly drizzles and blends ribbons of enamel into a loose,

spontaneous grid. Works by Joshua Abelow, Gianna Commito,

Jack Featherly, Stacy Fisher, Jaime Gecker, Matthew Lusk,

Douglas Melini, Bryan Osburn, Sarah Shirley, Ellen Sayers and

Keith J. Varadi are included.

The second part of the exhibition, "Non-Non," presents artists whose

work appears carefree and exploratory, more concerned with material

innovation than control. The artists force us to contend with the

material application and presentation of their work. Artists will include

James Hyde, JR Larson, Jeffrey Scott Mathews, Saira McLaren and

Tracy Thomason. Details to be announced.

Although the outward appearances of works in each show are visibly

different - and delivered by a range of motivations - there is a binding

force connecting the artists. “Anti-Anti” and “Non-Non” present work

that is anti-descriptive, anti-heroic, non-schematic, non-sense and

anti-craft. Not easily read, non-abrasive and non-non-abrasive.

For more information or to schedule a viewing, please contact

fran.holstrom@gmail.com or 917-370-5421.

HAL BROMM

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Tribeca / New York 10007

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