What's happening at the KiMo Theatre Art Gallery.
Ground Effect
July 25th - September 29th
Ground Effect is an exhibition that includes works that originate from the landscapes of the American Southwest. With quite different points of view, the three artists whose works are featured shed individual—and sometimes audacious—light on our landscape.
Christopher Pendleton’s large, densely rendered paintings on transparent acrylic sheets envision the landscape as the phenomenological abstraction that it really is. At first viewing, the paintings do seem like colorful and energetic abstractions, but quickly one begins to recognize the shapes of molten volcanic activity, or of a streaking meteor across a cosmic void lit by literally thousands of points of light.
Zane White’s landscapes are clearly the inheritors of classic, Surrealist philosophy. By placing objects together that appear to be assembled in an illogical or idiosyncratic manner, on closer inspection they illuminate relationships that may be interpreted as social, political or cultural in nature.
Roy Pendleton’s large multimedia paintings are based on the startling realization that a palette on which paint is mixed in preparation to create a painting is, in itself, a painting. His paintings are, in effect, large scale representations of the painter’s palette. He describes the mixing of color on the palette as the prequel to a painting, the story behind the scenes, so to speak.
