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Galerie Francesca Pia: JOHN TREMBLAY - Hidden in the Data - 28 Aug 2010 to 23 Oct 2010 Current Exhibition |
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John Tremblay, Motherland of Electricity, 2010
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JOHN TREMBLAY Hidden in the Data August 28 � October 23, 2010 Vernissage, Friday August 27, 2010, 6 � 8 p.m. Coming soon to the Francesca Pia Gallery are six to eight new works by John Tremblay. Comprised of abstract paintings and wooden wall pieces, the exhibition concerns the precision of mechanical process and the articulation of a hand-made geometry. A veneered wall sculpture, Slot Effect, has five horizontal slots, intentionally varied and randomly distanced. These vacancies reveal the wall on which the works hang; they gesture to the floor, the ceiling, the doors, the office behind them, the structural and the theoretical network in which the artwork operates. It is on the wall that these manicured panels meet and diverge from their painterly counterparts. Undulating brush strokes approach the look of wood grain. In these paintings the geometry is of a handmade quality. Horizontal blocks of color in the artwork Motherland of Electricity begin at the upper left and, step by step, work their way to the bottom right hand corner. These resemble a diagram where rectangles and slots are surrogates for image and text. But the painting describes itself best. It is possible for abstraction to be a diagram of itself, when this happens it is moving. John Tremblay was born in Massachusetts in 1966. He lives and works in New York. Selected Exhibitions 2010 MUMOK, Pictures about Pictures: Discourses in Painting from Albers to Zobernig, Vienna 2009 Palais de Tokyo, Chasing Napoleon, Paris Centre National d'Art Contemporain de Grenoble, Portrait de l'artiste en motocycliste, France 2008 Paula Cooper Gallery, New York Selected Collections Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, USA Cabinet des Estampes du Mus�e d�Art et d�Histoire, Geneva, Switzerland DaimlerChrysler AG, Berlin, Germany Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA FRAC Poitou-Charente, Angoul�me, France |
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