Thomas Nozkowski

Résumé du livre

Since the 1970s Nozkowski has produced abstract paintings and drawings inspired by events and places he has experienced firsthand. His paintings are the result of an extensive series of decisions in which he experiments with a form, color, or gesture, and then reworks it repeatedly over subsequent days, weeks or even years. His compositions reveal vivid organic shapes, gradations of color, exchanges between translucency and opaqueness, and explorations of the figure/ground relationship.00Nozkowski produces many of his oil on linen on panel and oil on paper works simultaneously. These two bodies of work provide insight into the artist’s process as he charts various possibilities for forms, colors, or patterns that might initiate in a linen on panel work and be reinterpreted or digress into something else on paper.00The exhibition will also feature a selection of drawings he made in 2014 responding to walks he took on the Shawangunk Ridge near Napanoch, NY. Initially produced as a portfolio for Esopus magazine, these drawings—whose media span ink, crayon, graphite, gouache, and collage—will be on view for the first time at Pace. These works will be installed in small groupings with the oils, underlining themes and ideas shared between the paintings and drawings. 0Exhibition: Pace Wildenstein Gallery, New York, USA (27.03-25.04.2015).