Sandeep Mukherjee

at Brennan & Griffin

Untitled ( Composible 1), 2013

You stitch yourself from small pieces. You understand yourself bit by bit. You stitch those bits together to get a better picture. By exploring one layer you actually discover new underlying layers. With your discovery process and time the layers are constantly changing. So the whole process is spiral in the nature - going deeper and deeper and going over the same things over and over again.

Jean Grangeon

at Tria Gallery

Lost in the creek

You are trying to extinguish all the fires at once. You fix things with the duct tape. But the fires are popping up like popcorn in the microwave oven. It is not an ocean, not a river. It is a creek, but still you are being drawn by a wave of small events. You lost your direction, your focus.

Carolyn Carr

at Spanierman Gallery

Slope, 2004

One of the main attractions of slopes is overcoming your own  fear. The danger is right in the center (the black structure) and still you masterfully negotiate the slope(the pink structure). What is rewarding in defying the most basic instinct : self-preservation? Are you preparing for future real battles? Or do you like challenge death and thus becoming somewhat immortal?

Armin Boehm

at Harris Lieberman(Frieze Art Fair New York 2013)

GO-ZL,2012

You understand the natural world from the ground up(the lower quarter of the painting). You obtain the root first - fundamental knowledge and skills. Based on that foundation you build your map of reality. The imaginary world of art, metaphysics and other philosophies you start to explore by the leaves peeking into your tangible world (the grey structure).

Jenny Nelson

at Tria Gallery

Set Sail

You don't know where you are going. Everything is foggy. But you have hull of steel confidence. Your sails are full of hope. Your engines are curiosity and search for new knowledge. The desire for new adventures lights your way(orange spots). The chances are big that before you get to the adventures, the routine(grey fields) will dissolve you. Or you will too close to the danger and will be burn as a butterfly which got too close to fire.

Sam Reveles

at CRG Gallery

Wilderness Study #23, 2007

A Scandal brings grief, problems and a turmoil for people that are directly involved (the dark blue doodles). Then it turns into a material for news and gossip(the blue doodles). Over time it become an anecdote(the white doodles). And of course you need a supply network to keep the flames glowing - tight knitted community of people (the background).

Pia Fries

at CRG Gallery

Untitled, 2003/2004

All the tinsel will be washed away over time. All the unimportant stuff will be forgotten. The essence of your past emerges. And if you had a happy life (though you didn't realize it, while the events were unraveling), the happiness will dominate your memories(the light turquoise spots).

Steven Bindernagel

at CRG Gallery

Untitled, 2011

This is a look into a big company. From the outside it could look as a big solid skyscraper from glass and steel. But these are the dirty insides that every company has. Everyone is building his own project. Everyone is trying to get as high as possible. It does not matter by what means. You can use your neighbor's plumbing or just build on top of the his room. If it is good to you, you can cooperate with others, and then abandon them in the middle to move to a better place. Welcome to the corporate jungle.

Juan Uslé

at Cheim & Read

SIN DESENLACE, 2007

The routine (the white lines that go from left to right) changes you. You can't feel it, because it does very very slow. As time goes by (the grey vertical lines) you are changing. The routine gets in the way. It annoyingly disturbs the the main picture. You think : "This is just a day job, but I am actually an artist". But you are wrong. You are only part-time artist. Only if you can use this to your advantage(the blue background triangular figure in the lower middle), you can get you break-through (the white figure in the center). Otherwise the conveyor of life will be moving without you notice ( the grey horizontal ribbons in the upper part).

Bill Jensen

at Cheim & Read

WITH COLOR XXVIII, 2009

Woman (The big dark figure in the center). She could be secretively dark. Outside there is a bright sunny day, when everything seems simple, fun and easy to understand. She is full of unknown wisdom. The mystery pulls you in. You want to dive into the deepest darkest corner. You are marching willingly into a web of lust, forbidden pleasures and unending secrecy.

Barbara Kasten

at Bortolami Gallery

Construct LB-5, 1982

Curiosity drives you. Just as a butterfly flies to a light (a construct in the lower left corner), you are moved toward a black hole of Unknown (upper right corner). Your wings are desire(red) and mystery(black). After getting some height(accumulating some knowledge) and crossing some lines (red line from the center to upper middle), you understand the more you know the less the subject is clear. The desire to explore the unknown really opens up the wings(the red figure in the right part of the painting).

Peter Halley

at Mary Boone Gallery

Panic Room, 2002

Fear, panic. chaos.
The panic room is the safest place in a house(the red rectangle with white bars in the center). But there is the panic at its highest. The room is built on fear and with fear(the yellow rectangle around the red one). The fear is fed by a bunch of external sources ( yellow lines coming into the yellow rectangle). You can't escape the fear, it is inside you. The panic room is not a safe place, it is a trap.

Thomas Scheibitz

at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery

Schlact, 2003

This man is very social. He is funny. He is the center of any party. He stands out in the flock of people. He converses, jokes and very likable. But he is an actor. Inside he is very lonely, empty and sad man. The external joyfulness is the symptom of the ongoing internal battle to conquer the desert in the soul.

Iva Gueorguieva

at Ameringer/McEnery/Yohe

Contamination Check,  2011

Memories : blues, red pain, scars, black despair. Some parts are not connected, because the connecting parts are forgotten. Memory catches the significant events, so the past seems packed. The future is calm, melancholy and static.

Suzanne Caporael

at Ameringer-McEnery-Yohe

Suzanne Caporael, 263, 2012

Love is created from small pieces, subtle details and things that got out of hand. It is an imploded explosion. Love is a gentle flower. It needs attention and protection. You should keep Love in a box.

Charles Seliger

at Michael Rosenfeld Gallery

Internal Space, 1945

This is an introvert. On the outside he is shy, bleak, grey. Everything is well defined and inside the borders and norms. But the inside is another story. There is a volcano with hot lava flowing along the bottom side.You see different things connected into networks that span objects, ideas, worlds. The networks despite the norms and borders. It is an universe that produces the enormous amount of new things that are confided to a ordinary, not remarkable outer shell.

Dorothy Dehner

at Levis Fine Art

Untitled

Dance party. It's dark. People are seen in the flashes of background light. You don't see them moving continuously, but as in a stop frame video. You not only hear the music, you feel it. Everything is vibrating with the rhythm.You feel somehow connected to other people in the room. You all are one in the dance.

Budd Hopkins

at Levis Fine Art

Aquarius III, 1971

You have planned everything. You have anticipated every possible outcomes. But then suddenly your left underside got loose(the greyish figure in the lower left corner). This "disaster" tilts your whole structure to the left. You think that everything is ruined. But actually it gives you a new perspective, a unique point of view. The uniqueness boosts you up, and you are getting ahead of the pack. The imperfections are not bad, they are engines of progress.

Nicolas Carone

at Washburn Gallery (Art 43 Basel 2012)

Not to be Touched, 2006

The system is balanced. But it is stable not because it is strong and reinforced. It holds its fragile state by using opposing forces, counter-weights and its own good reputation. You can see the scars from previous encounters. You know that even a light touch can wake up such destructive forces that not only the system will be destroyed but anyone standing in the vicinity of it. Nevertheless you are dying to feel it.

Myron Stout

at Washburn Gallery (Art 43 Basel 2012)

Untitled, 1950

The opposite things attract each other. Negative - positive, red - green. They attract each other, because one has what another lacks. From the other side, they are different in their basic nature. Those opposing forces create an energy zone between and around them(yellow lines). The energy makes the Game interesting. The gamers are not only playing the Game, but also are exploring the black corners that are illuminated by the energy.