Structure and Imagery

Willard Boepple, Inside Out , 2014, aluminum, 84 x 43 x 23 1/2 inches From the press release: This exhibition will be comprised of recent sculptures from the “Trestles” series. Karen Wilkin writes of the work:  Boepple approaches architectural scale in these shambling, animated constructions, which at once evoke industrial artifacts and creatures able to move under their own power. The delimiting frameworks of the “Looms” and “Trestles” and the instantly recognizable supports of the “Ladders,” have here been subsumed by loose-jointed assemblies of linear elements that seem potentially mobile. At the same time, we are aware of the industrial underpinnings of these exuberant sculptures, faint echoes of utilitarian objects constructed with iron beams that return us to the origins of Boepple’s approach to sculpture, when Picasso and González, for the first time, made works of art using the same techniques that were used to build motorcars and tall buildings. [1] T...

From the Press Release: Eve Aschheim’s latest body of work is marked by the artist’s expanding exploration of color, by her deepening engagement with non-Euclidean geometry and by her further extension of Kazimir Malevich’s interest in the fourth dimension toward elusive and shifting perceptual states. Fractured and reconfigured pictorial spaces are articulated by vibrant hues ranging from ice blues and acid greens to strident yellows and bright magentas. The artist’s use of color not only broadens her pictorial vocabulary to further inform her compositions, but she also uses color to create specific sensations and atmosphere. Color is used in different ways in these new paintings. In a single painting, this can include high key colors that interact with neutral color areas, flushes of transparent color that simultaneously appear to move forward and backward through pictorial space, and color that is suggestive of light. Indicative of the artist’s inte...

Steel and Soaking , 2013, oil and graphite on canvas on panel , 18 x 14 1/4 in. Eve Aschheim Opening: march 20, 6-8 PM March 20 - April 19, 2014 Lori Bookstein Fine Art 138 10th Avenue New York, NY 10011

From the Press Release: This exhibition will focus on the late, monumental works of Jan Müller [1922-58], painted in the final years of his short life. The presentation of Müller’s pivotal Faust works-  Walpurgisnacht- Faust I  (on loan from the Museum of Modern Art),  Walpurgisnacht- Faust II, The Chorus of Angels  (from the estate of the artist), and The Temptation of St. Anthony  (on loan from the Whitney Museum of American Art) - will make the most significant gathering of Jan Müller’s work in over 25 years, as well as proffering a new opportunity to reflect on Müller’s expansive sources of inspiration. Jan Müller used the themes he found in literature as a point of departure: painting only what concerned him, he created aggregate visions of his own experiences and ailments, both physical and metaphysical. The story of Faust, replete with characters of uncontrolled ambition and surrendered moral integrity, was of particular fascinati...