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August Issue 2007
Joie Lassiter Gallery in Charlotte, NC, Features Works by Andrew Moore and Caio Fonseca
The Joie Lassiter Gallery in Charlotte, NC,
is presenting two exhibitions including: New Paintings,
featuring works by Andrew Moore, and a new body of works on paper
by Caio Fonseca. Both exhibitions will be on view through Aug.
31, 2007.
New Paintings is a premier exhibition for Andrew Moore,
including large scale abstract paintings which suggest expansive
landscapes and reflective bodies of water. Moore is an abstract
painter who describes himself as "both constructive and destructive"
with his work. The three dimensional texture of Moore's paintings
is the hallmark of a labor intensive process. He often works on
more than one piece at a time so that he may paint a layer and
give it enough time to dry before painting another one. This process
of building up and taking away lends way to the rich surfaces
of Moore's work.
Moore paints ideas. He works in an "abstract language based on a history that people have built on." Indeed, the surfaces of Moore's work carry a depth and "history" of their own. Critics see his work as mystical and dreamlike, simultaneously soothing and dynamic to look at. Despite the mesmerizing abstraction of Moore's work, his paintings are noted to almost always carry a hint of narrative form, perhaps a quality directly relatable to his interest in abstraction as a language and history.
Caio Fonseca's work is evocative: ambiguous, colored shapes "float" across the surfaces of his works on paper. Karen Wilkins explains his style best in her Art in America article, "[the shapes] resist identification, as if pulled directly from the unconscious. They also refuse to settle down spatially; unnamable, but richly associative, they pulse between figure and ground, now appearing nearly submerged by creamy expanses of paint, now breaking free to hover in fictive space."
Subtlety is one of Fonseca's gifts. The keen observer can see subtle changes in his work over the years, but there are no radical shifts. Sometimes the forms seem to be the protagonist, sometimes the space. Many viewers see something musical in his art. While Fonseca is an excellent pianist he resists too literal a connection with music. He does not intend for his forms to look like musical notes, or staves, or even grand pianos. But the secret life of music creeps into his paintings. Dissonance and harmony have a relationship to each other and inform the geography of his works. In music, what is not heard is akin to spatial emptiness. All elements in Fonseca's work, whether forms, lines, or spaces, are placed - or, in Fonseca's method of working, revealed - in relationship to each other. His art is about the balance of elemental forms.
Fonseca's works are held in numerous public and private collections in Europe and the United States. His work has been exhibited at the Paul Kasmin Gallery (New York), Ben Brown Fine Arts (London, UK), and the Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno (Valencia, Spain) to name a few.
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