From the Press Release:
Berry Campbell is pleased to announce Raymond Hendler: Swinging Heart an exhibition featuring the expressionist style paintings the artist created between 1957 and 1964.
A first-generation action painter, Raymond Hendler started his career as an Abstract Expressionist in Paris, as early as 1949. In the years that followed, he played a significant role in the movement, both in New York, where he was a friend of Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, and Jackson Pollock, and in Philadelphia, where he ran an avant-garde gallery between 1952 and 1954. His work evolved from overall tightly-wound linear webs to abstract pictograms that blend a personal language with hints at figuration. Of the latter works, Kline remarked in 1962: “The direct austere design and color complexes paint the image without undue nuances—with clarity and mature independence.”
"Raymond Hendler exhibited a
group of abstract paintings that displayed rare high spirits. Using a
great deal of fresh white, Hendler devised extremely simple symbols
which he dispersed felicitously on his shining grounds. These bright,
often linear hieroglyphs serve both as pictorial animators-they often
flow in winding patterns or like fluent handwriting-and as references
to the plentitude of the artist's existence. Gardens and sky and human
joy are read in these exceedingly compressed forms."
-Dore Ashton, 1964
Raymond Hendler: Swinging Heart
Through April 26, 2014
Berry Campbell
530 W 24th Street
New York, NY 10011
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