 Equal Refrain, 2005 acrylic on canvas, 64.9 x 83.8" Daniel Sturgis High Repose "Sturgis' paintings look clear, forthright and fun, but yet they are full of quandaries. The eye might glide across them with aplomb, yet the brain dwells on them with a certain sense of unease". (Barry Schwabsky) Cynthia Broan Gallery is delighted to announce the first major New York exhibition of paintings by the British artist Daniel Sturgis. In his latest work Sturgis has developed a series of startling and original paintings which continue his exploration into the possibilities and legacy of abstraction. Through different permutations of a repertoire of stencilled shapes and colors, the artist performs the task of painting via a combination of seeming repetition and intuition. Haunted by a sense of utopia inherited from the days of modernism, Sturgis' paintings escape any specific pictorial canon by being inclusive to a number of very different sources. Although essentially abstract, these elegant and eccentric compositions bring together eclectic references from both the contemporary and art historical worlds. It is a test of their success that while the paintings manage to evoke readings and associations, they never surrender the sum of their parts; they veer off at tangents, and are unsettling as they ask questions about the very nature of painting, of abstraction and the real. Daniel Sturgis (b.1966) lives and works in London. His work has been shown widely in Europe with solo exhibitions in London, Athens, Stuttgart, Amsterdam, and Rome. Paintings have also been included in notable survey shows in public institutions such as: "Perfidy - surviving modernism" (Kettles Yard, Cambridge, 2000); "Complementary Studies - Recent Abstract Painting" (Harris Museum, Preston, 2001); "Painting as a Foreign Language" (Sao Paolo Biennale, 2002); "About Painting" (Galerie Hollenbach, Stuttgart, 2004). He has a forthcoming one person exhibition at Galerie Hollenbach, Stuttgart in 2006. His work is included in major public and private collections such as the UK Government Art Collection and the Saatchi Collection. A catalog for High Repose with an essay by Terry R. Myers is available. Exhibition: October 11 - November 5, 2005 Gallery hours: Tues-Sat 10 am - 6 pm Cynthia Broan Gallery 546 W. 29th St. USA-New York, NY 10001 Telephone +1 212 760 0809 Fax +1 212 760 0810 Email contact@cynthiabroan.com www.cynthiabroan.com |
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