Place and Replace

Michael Van Winkle
Friday, December 2, 2011 - Friday, December 30, 2011

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

Working with the relationship between common objects and the reified art world is Michael Van Winkle, whose fast-paced and disorderly daily practice projects a particular place, history, and narrative even in the fluid context of abstract painting. In Place and Replace, hours of intuitive action and discovery result in a densely populated continuum of mismatched pictures and incongruent material surfaces. It is out of this unruly amalgam that Van Winkle pulls the elements which inhabit the final works.

The mysterious dialogue between painted characters opens a kinetic relational space, encouraging invention and creating a trajectory into our imaginations.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

My artwork has always explored the potential for new experience within deeply familiar subjects such as still life, landscape and figure painting. The actions and events depicted in my work are similarly mundane; seeking to express the overlap between routine daily experience and life’s most unsettling moments. The spaces within the work are physical and psychological. They contain illusion and atmosphere while being self consciously places of painted material. Through nurturing these dualities, I explore the inherent connection between the physical world and our internal states as we cross the boundary between disparate sensations, identities and modes of being. The figures in my paintings are meditations on this shifting relationship. http://www.michaelvanwinkle.com/?page_id=806