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Franklin Street Works next exhibition, “About Like So: The Influence of Painting” explores what happens when painting breaks out of its frames, canvases and other supports. The show, which is on view from November 22, 2014 – February 22, 2015 aims to dismantle the romantic notions of painting through unorthodox use of paint or by bypassing the medium all together to reveal how “the language of painting” invades, obstructs and enhances other media such as video, sound, and sculpture. Member VIP preview 5-6 with public opening from 6-8pm.


Polly Apfelbaum, Split Station, 2014, courtesy of Clifton Benevento

It isn’t news that painting, like sculpture, has entered an expanded field where its forms and functions are shifting and are no longer limited by the illusionistic window of a rectangular canvas or the isolation of a studio practice.  But in an era where painting no longer has the art historical primacy it once did, what can it contribute to the dominant art practices of today – art that is often not medium specific and is rooted in the theory-driven practices of conceptual art?

The artists in this exhibition embrace virtually every medium. The works include: videos that mix music with action painting and that narrate the fictitious plight of a figurative painter working in Venice; sound installations that allude to abstract painting via blocks of color and overlaying of tones; box sculptures where a homemade potholder becomes an abstract painting on the front while crossed bars in the box’s back allude to hanging devices (hooks, wires, D-rings) that are often hidden by the museum wall; and “paint rags” made of a thick layering of paint, seemingly peeled from an artist’s pallet and hung on a hook.



Exhibiting artists: Polly Apfelbaum, Paul Branca, Taylor Davis, Tim Davis, Marley Freeman, Ragnheiour Gestsdottir, Michael Graeve, Dave Hardy, Alex Hubbard, John Knuth, Sophy Naess, Tameka Norris, Peter Nowogrodzki/Max Kotelchuck, Seth Price, Paul Theriault, Brad Tucker, Siebren Versteeg, Augustus Thompson, Leslie Wayne, “in actu: music and painting.”

 

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