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Neil Farber: Ursa Major
Pippy Houldsworth Gallery is delighted to present Ursa Major, a solo exhibition of new works by Winnipeg-based artist, Neil Farber.
Ursa Major debuts Neil Farber鈥檚 new series of large and visceral paintings and drawings. Together, these works make up a poignant constellation of absurdist drama, echoing and amplifying the surreal qualities of the artist鈥檚 work made with the artist collective, The Royal Art Lodge.
The viewer is invited on a visceral painted journey where mixtures of acrylic, pouring medium, ink and gloss gels create abstract configurations of Farber鈥檚 trademark 鈥榟eads鈥�, alongside pools of blood and phantasmatic landscapes.
Farber鈥檚 paintings and drawings are adorned with a sharp wit and darkly comic sensibility. His grand tableaux present a host of mythological and psychological creatures and caricatures from our contemporary political landscape. We are confronted by a cast of criminals, religious characters, and anonymous, anthropomorphic figures; often accompanied by automatic hand-written annotations that recall concrete and surrealist poetry.
Farber鈥檚 characters appear within humorous and dislocated stories that he articulates through a complex engagement with the possibilities of the white page or painting surface. His unconventional 鈥榖roken鈥� narratives emerge through a formal repetition akin to that of early minimalist works. For Farber, painting is over and beyond an act of representation. His 鈥榟eads鈥� bubble on the surface, gazing almost knowingly outwards and reminding the viewer of their luscious surface and objectivity.
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Pippy Houldsworth Gallery is delighted to present Ursa Major, a solo exhibition of new works by Winnipeg-based artist, Neil Farber.
Ursa Major debuts Neil Farber鈥檚 new series of large and visceral paintings and drawings. Together, these works make up a poignant constellation of absurdist drama, echoing and amplifying the surreal qualities of the artist鈥檚 work made with the artist collective, The Royal Art Lodge.
The viewer is invited on a visceral painted journey where mixtures of acrylic, pouring medium, ink and gloss gels create abstract configurations of Farber鈥檚 trademark 鈥榟eads鈥�, alongside pools of blood and phantasmatic landscapes.
Farber鈥檚 paintings and drawings are adorned with a sharp wit and darkly comic sensibility. His grand tableaux present a host of mythological and psychological creatures and caricatures from our contemporary political landscape. We are confronted by a cast of criminals, religious characters, and anonymous, anthropomorphic figures; often accompanied by automatic hand-written annotations that recall concrete and surrealist poetry.
Farber鈥檚 characters appear within humorous and dislocated stories that he articulates through a complex engagement with the possibilities of the white page or painting surface. His unconventional 鈥榖roken鈥� narratives emerge through a formal repetition akin to that of early minimalist works. For Farber, painting is over and beyond an act of representation. His 鈥榟eads鈥� bubble on the surface, gazing almost knowingly outwards and reminding the viewer of their luscious surface and objectivity.
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