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Luhring Augustine is pleased to announce Patterns, a group exhibition presented in both our Chelsea and Tribeca galleries. On view from June 21 through August 2, the show highlights over twenty artists whose work explores pattern in diverse ways鈥攁s a motif, organizing principle, compositional device, and strategy. Working in painting, weaving, quilt-making, mosaic, and sculpture, this cross-generational group of artists includes:

Rather than adhering to rigid repetition or structure, these artists invite interruptions and deviations from prescribed forms through varying strategies, opening avenues to new ways of making and seeing. Painterly approaches to pattern in the exhibition range from the 鈥渂edsheet paintings鈥� of Kim MacConnel, a seminal figure of the Pattern and Decoration movement of the 1970s, to Emily Kraus鈥檚 process-driven, stochastic abstractions produced with a self-made apparatus. Athos Bul莽茫o required that the tiles of his intricate, puzzle-like murals be installed at random in order to create disruptions in the formal pattern of his original designs. The potentiality of such 鈥渟lippage鈥� is embraced by many artists in the exhibition, as evidenced in Christopher Wool鈥檚 early stamp and roller paintings, in which he focused on the small failures that occurred when using these everyday tools鈥攇litches that subverted the mechanized framework with painterly gesture. A 鈥減erceptual stutter鈥� continues in the paintings of Ryan Mrozowski; symmetry and asymmetry abut, resulting in lyrical patterning that often reimagines nature with methodical order.