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PAST EXHIBITION:
PAUL BLOODGOOD
Thing Language
Saturday May 8th - June 19th, 2010
Opening Reception, Thursday May 13th, 6 - 8 PM
^ Paul Bloodgood
Reading, Waiting, Copying, 2010
Oil on canvas mounted on Gator board
76 x 92 inches
Newman Popiashvili Gallery is pleased to present Thing Language, the first solo exhibition at the gallery of New York artist Paul Bloodgood. In this new body of work, Bloodgood continues a practice of copying and re-copying pieces of his own works and others to make small collages and then oil studies that become templates for the larger abstract paintings that are exhibited in the show.
The abstraction that reveals itself in Bloodgood's paintings is a result of his serial approach to the paintings; first cartooning all the supports so that each painting starts as a re-iteration of the original collage, but then taking various structural elements of the collages - the torn edges, cut-lines, Xerox colors, and the grid itself - and re-applying them in more eccentric or arbitrary manner.
The title of the show Thing Language derives from a chapbook of poetry written in 1964 by the San Francisco poet and linguist Jack Spicer. Spicer's presentation of his poetic practice as an act of dictation and his insistence on a primacy of a language outside of and opposed to self-expression, offers a meaningful parallel to Bloodgood's interests in a practice of abstract painting that doesn't speak of identity, but of correspondence to elements outside of the painting itself - like dictated poetry. This is typical of Bloodgood's career-long practice of creatively engaging with a usable past in order to build new models of abstraction.
"In those flat colors
Not a collage
A binding together, a
Memory." Jack Spicer from Billy The Kid (1958)
Co-founder and curator of the AC Project Room, Paul Bloodgood has been an important figure in the New York art world for the past two decades. His work has been exhibited at David Zwirner Gallery, 303 Gallery and at the 2007 White Columns Annual. He received his MFA in Painting from the Maine College of Art in Portland and his BA in Painting from Yale University. Paul Bloodgood was a 2009 recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship.
For further information please contact the gallery.
Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday 11am - 6pm.
^ Paul Bloodgood
Chromatic Drift, 2010
Oil on panel
24 x 30 inches
^ Paul Bloodgood
Thing Language, 2010
Oil on canvas mounted on Gator board
76 x 92 inches
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