ARTISTS
Steve Smulka
Gallery Henoch is pleased to announce Steve Smulka鈥檚 solo show of recent paintings
Steve Smulka paints glass鈥攂ut it might be more accurate to say that Smulka paints light. Smulka uses mason jars, vintage seltzer bottles, wine decanters, vases and water pitchers to capture the way light bends, refracts, illuminates, and distorts its surroundings. In some of the paintings, backgrounds of looming clouds and ridged tree bark are as in-focus as the glass containers in the foreground, merging the two in a poetic, scrupulously accurate, yet slightly unreal way. In other paintings, bottles in columns two, three, or four deep create multiple layers of transparency that make for almost abstract studies of light and color. In Steve Smulka's closely observed, meditative paintings, these densely luminous layers give weight to the intangible nature of light, while rendering the solid objects it illuminates with an atmospheric evanescence.
Gallery Henoch is pleased to announce Steve Smulka鈥檚 solo show of recent paintings
Steve Smulka paints glass鈥攂ut it might be more accurate to say that Smulka paints light. Smulka uses mason jars, vintage seltzer bottles, wine decanters, vases and water pitchers to capture the way light bends, refracts, illuminates, and distorts its surroundings. In some of the paintings, backgrounds of looming clouds and ridged tree bark are as in-focus as the glass containers in the foreground, merging the two in a poetic, scrupulously accurate, yet slightly unreal way. In other paintings, bottles in columns two, three, or four deep create multiple layers of transparency that make for almost abstract studies of light and color. In Steve Smulka's closely observed, meditative paintings, these densely luminous layers give weight to the intangible nature of light, while rendering the solid objects it illuminates with an atmospheric evanescence.
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