presents

PALETTE

   POLES

For Immediate Release:

OCT 17 - Nov 16, 2008

   Be it politics, finances or changes in the weather - colors are used to depict psychological landscapes. Current in today's society as it has been throughout painting's history; colors create contrast and evoke emotions.

Reception: OCT 17, 7-10pm
Afterparty: OCT 17, 10pm – sun up

  

In PALETTE POLES, warm and cool colors generate notions of tension, distance and moods.

 

Gallery 1 & 3: The Emotion of Color
paintings by Cristobal Dam
Realizing nature (in its uninhibited splendor) is organized is not an abstract idea. Such thought is the fodder for Cris Dam's work. Patterns composing Dam's paintings are organic, repetitive and disciplined.

Color schemes of night vs day, green/ blue/ red/ white cellular structures and bursts of plant or animal lifeforms inhabit Dam's canvases. The artist's unique visual language develops from what viewers are already universally familiar with. Without being tied to a specific art history movement, moment, place or culture- Dam's paintings rediscover the structural components at the heart of communication. Dam speaks through colors and shapes understood and identified on an emotional level.
 

 

Gallery 2: The Psychology of Color
paintings by Jeff Schneider
Cowboys in saddles, smoking models, posed fruit and drapery are given room and strength to claim their own identity within a single canvas. In Schneider’s paintings, independent fields of unlikely imagery pulsate. Foreground and background vibrate off each other, switching roles.
Sophisticatedly staged, the artist utilizes color to create frictional, fictional, interchangeable relationships among the paintings’ components. Schneider's colors separate and engage elements of his paintings in active play for presence, dominance and the favor of the crowd's eye.
 

Dam, Stuhltrager

International Exhibits:

  

Basel, Switzerland
RYAN WOLFE & MARK ANDREAS
at MARCdePUECHREDON
for SWIFT
Oct 16 - Nov 29
&
St Petersburg, Russia
RYAN WOLFE & BROSE PARTINGTON
at The HERMITAGE MUSEUM
curated by Anna Frants / Cyland
opening Nov 25
On The Radar:
  

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38 Marcy Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11211
www.damstuhltrager.com
info@damstuhltrager.com		  


 

Hrs: Fri 3-8pm, Sat & Sun 12-6pm

Directions: L to Lorimer. Exit near token booth. Metropolitan under BQE.Left on Marcy. Distance from train: 3 bl (Corner of Marcy Ave & Hope St)