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May 1 - 15 2008
Opening Reception: Friday, May 2nd, 6-8pm
Curated by Gillian Sneed
Broadway Gallery is pleased to announce Soft Logic,
a group exhibition featuring the painting of four emerging abstract
painters: Kimberly Brickley, Sarah Duke, Yui Kugimiya, and Gillian
Sneed. Though each artist is unique in her style and approach, these
four artists share a vision that finds expression through a formal
idiom that investigates the relationship between structure and
organicism.Slated to receive her MFA from the University of
Pennsylvania in 2009, Kimberly Brickley’s multimedia abstractions
explore the notion of landscape. Influenced by topographical maps, she
in interested in nature, decay, and biological phenomena.A recent Pratt
Institute MFA graduate, Sarah Duke’s delicately rendered oils depict
vibrant and enigmatic amorphous forms that are the result of
observation of disparate objects being forced together. Her paintings
represent her attempt to reconcile the contours of these shapes.
A recent Yale MFA graduate, Yui Kugimiya considers her paintings as
an autobiographical recording medium. By using non-traditional
materials in conjunction with oil paint, she aims at contrasting the
otherness or artificiality of materials.
Gillian Sneed is an artist and writer based in New York. Her
paintings exploit the structure of the grid to draw attention to its
imperfection. Her work explores the power of color through layering,
transparency, and color juxtapositioning.
In concert, these works indicate exciting directions in new painting
in terms of their materiality, and approach to color and media.
Softening the hard edges of formalism, these works favor approaches
that are playful and instinctive.
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