TRANSVAGRANT/SEXTET GROUP SHOW
TransVagrant and Warschaw Gallery are pleased to presentSextet, a group exhibition of paintings by Katy Crowe, William Mahan, Yong Sin, Gary Szymanski, Marie Thibeault, and Ted Twine.
Katy Crowe is an abstract painter of lyrical, reductivist leaning whose gentle meditations on natural and geometric shapes and structures belie a stubborn, complex and informed aesthetic.
Veteran Los Angeles artist William Mahan is known for large-scale works based on real-life places and events and painted with a directness that often belies their sophisticated drawing, color, and facture.
In Yong Sin’s work the simple becomes unexpectedly elaborate; the ordinary metamorphose into distinctiveness. The goal is to create work that is inherently distinctive and belies its repetitiveness.
Gary Szymanski breaks the silence of his geometric pursuits by presenting selected text pieces, which have been a parallel concern of the artist all along. Seldom exhibited, the text works are simultaneously engaged and detached, referencing the controversy surrounding inflammatory political rhetoric, its media exploitation and reception.
In Marie Thibeault’s paintings landscape functions as a metaphor both literally and symbolically. She states, “The genre of landscape is a potent archetype, both for American painting, and for our national psyche. Landscape represents our exterior “state” both literally and figuratively, and can mirror our culture’s complex relationship with nature…”
Ted Twine’s work engages the viewer in a tug-of-war between abstract and figure painting. Playful to menacing shapes appear animated against colorful fields in an informed engagement of the visceral and cerebral.
Sextet opens with a reception for the artists on Sat., July 18 from 4-7PM and runs through Aug. 29. TransVagrant@Warschaw Gallery is at 600 S. Pacific Ave., San Pedro. For more information click here.