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Plum Cloutman & Nina Silverberg
1969 Gallery is pleased to present a two-person exhibition featuring recent paintings by the London-based artists Plum Cloutman and Nina Silverberg. Both artists create poetic, intimately scaled works that suggest memory and dreams.
Plum Cloutman paints enigmatic scenes that combine personal memory, fantasy, history, and myth. By building her paintings in meticulous layers of oil paint, water-color pencil, and pastel, she achieves exquisite textures of woodgrain, burnished clay, and weathered surfaces etched with the patina of time. Meanwhile, her warm greens and pinks are reminiscent of the dreamy, wistful palettes of Rococo and Romanticist masters. Psychologically rich and subtly surreal, Cloutman鈥檚 paintings allow viewers to bring our own interpretations to the work, completing her ambiguous narratives with personal associations.
Nina Silverberg鈥檚 paintings of everyday objects and architectural elements are imbued with the deep structures of geometric abstraction. Her empty gloves, occluded piazza archways, and blank-paged books recall the visual puzzles of de Chirico and Magritte, as well as the classicism of her native Rome. Playing with foreground-back- ground reversals, optical illusions, and games of concealment, their pared-down formal structures belie their philosophical complexity. Like Cloutman, Silverberg employs a muted palette of dusky pinks, mauves, and earth tones that evoke a half-remembered past.
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1969 Gallery is pleased to present a two-person exhibition featuring recent paintings by the London-based artists Plum Cloutman and Nina Silverberg. Both artists create poetic, intimately scaled works that suggest memory and dreams.
Plum Cloutman paints enigmatic scenes that combine personal memory, fantasy, history, and myth. By building her paintings in meticulous layers of oil paint, water-color pencil, and pastel, she achieves exquisite textures of woodgrain, burnished clay, and weathered surfaces etched with the patina of time. Meanwhile, her warm greens and pinks are reminiscent of the dreamy, wistful palettes of Rococo and Romanticist masters. Psychologically rich and subtly surreal, Cloutman鈥檚 paintings allow viewers to bring our own interpretations to the work, completing her ambiguous narratives with personal associations.
Nina Silverberg鈥檚 paintings of everyday objects and architectural elements are imbued with the deep structures of geometric abstraction. Her empty gloves, occluded piazza archways, and blank-paged books recall the visual puzzles of de Chirico and Magritte, as well as the classicism of her native Rome. Playing with foreground-back- ground reversals, optical illusions, and games of concealment, their pared-down formal structures belie their philosophical complexity. Like Cloutman, Silverberg employs a muted palette of dusky pinks, mauves, and earth tones that evoke a half-remembered past.
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