(L-R): Voss, Palmer and Patch
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The attraction to difficulty is an essential element in the studio practice of Benjamin Pritchard. His paintings emerge out of a search for meaning through a slow and repetitive process of addition and subtraction / definition and negation. The endoskeletons and exoskeletons of Pritchard’s quasi-geometric, organic structures coexist in a raw, restless, and ambiguous state. His recent paintings are private meditations on specific people, books, and spontaneous experiential moments in the world.
The painted canvases of Michael Voss are small, intimate objects that are sensual in terms of surface and color, and distinctly urban in their sense of timing. The blur of the urban glance is a consequence of the compression of time, information, and movement. Through painting and drawing, Voss holds these moments of frenetic speed in disquieting stillness. His India ink tennis ball drawings seem to be a vehicle for him to explore the precariousness of unknowing. Due to the physical nature of the sphere, the omni-directional drawings can only be created by Voss and experienced by the viewer in a partial, fragmentary way, but allow for the viewing of countless, ever changing.
Andrew Zarou
BKLN, NY
2013
The attraction to difficulty is an essential element in the studio practice of Benjamin Pritchard. His paintings emerge out of a search for meaning through a slow and repetitive process of addition and subtraction / definition and negation. The endoskeletons and exoskeletons of Pritchard’s quasi-geometric, organic structures coexist in a raw, restless, and ambiguous state. His recent paintings are private meditations on specific people, books, and spontaneous experiential moments in the world.
The painted canvases of Michael Voss are small, intimate objects that are sensual in terms of surface and color, and distinctly urban in their sense of timing. The blur of the urban glance is a consequence of the compression of time, information, and movement. Through painting and drawing, Voss holds these moments of frenetic speed in disquieting stillness. His India ink tennis ball drawings seem to be a vehicle for him to explore the precariousness of unknowing. Due to the physical nature of the sphere, the omni-directional drawings can only be created by Voss and experienced by the viewer in a partial, fragmentary way, but allow for the viewing of countless, ever changing.
Andrew Zarou
BKLN, NY
2013
All images copyright Andrew Zarou.