Gary Weisman & Danny McCaw: Visual Poetry
A two-person exhibition that pushes beyond the representation of naturalistic human likeness to achieve deeper imaginative conversations between the artist and the viewer.
Featuring Danny McCaw鈥檚 abstracted figure paintings and Gary Weisman鈥檚 multidimensional bronze sculpture, this exhibition captures the ongoing relevance of dialogues considering how formalist interpretations of the body continue to convey beautiful truths unobliging to reason.
McCaw鈥檚 oil paintings often favor a thick impasto and moody palate engaging in gesturally decisive imagery blurring the visual vocabularies of representation and abstraction. He uses seemingly simple geometric perspectives to masterfully create minimalist humanistic forms that are left to be completed in detail by the viewer鈥檚 gaze, while the compositions convey a sense of uncertainty, leaving generous space for ambiguity, encouraging contemplation, imagination, and personal interpretation. McCaw鈥檚 paintings are imbued with emotional potency and the angst of narratives left untold.
Weisman pays astute attention to negative space; crafting sculptures whose presences extend beyond their immediate forms, lending kinetic energy and cast-shadow projections to their surrounding environments as completing components of the works themselves. His figures ask the viewer to abandon preconceptions of space and gravity and to just exist in silent acknowledgement and appreciation of one another. Rare among contemporary sculptors, Weisman performs every step of his art-making process by hand, mixing clay and modeling, lost-wax casting in his foundry, and sanding and polishing in his studio, expertly rendering historically inspired bronze sculptures that possess an innovative contemporary dynamism.
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A two-person exhibition that pushes beyond the representation of naturalistic human likeness to achieve deeper imaginative conversations between the artist and the viewer.
Featuring Danny McCaw鈥檚 abstracted figure paintings and Gary Weisman鈥檚 multidimensional bronze sculpture, this exhibition captures the ongoing relevance of dialogues considering how formalist interpretations of the body continue to convey beautiful truths unobliging to reason.
McCaw鈥檚 oil paintings often favor a thick impasto and moody palate engaging in gesturally decisive imagery blurring the visual vocabularies of representation and abstraction. He uses seemingly simple geometric perspectives to masterfully create minimalist humanistic forms that are left to be completed in detail by the viewer鈥檚 gaze, while the compositions convey a sense of uncertainty, leaving generous space for ambiguity, encouraging contemplation, imagination, and personal interpretation. McCaw鈥檚 paintings are imbued with emotional potency and the angst of narratives left untold.
Weisman pays astute attention to negative space; crafting sculptures whose presences extend beyond their immediate forms, lending kinetic energy and cast-shadow projections to their surrounding environments as completing components of the works themselves. His figures ask the viewer to abandon preconceptions of space and gravity and to just exist in silent acknowledgement and appreciation of one another. Rare among contemporary sculptors, Weisman performs every step of his art-making process by hand, mixing clay and modeling, lost-wax casting in his foundry, and sanding and polishing in his studio, expertly rendering historically inspired bronze sculptures that possess an innovative contemporary dynamism.
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