C&M Arts is pleased to present Back to Paint, the gallery’s first exploration of issues in recent contemporary painting. Paint has re-emerged as a prominent medium among young artists today, and this exhibition of works by 8 artists seeks to explore some of the many and varied uses of the medium at this moment. The works range from heroically large to very intimate, from abstract to obsessively figurative.
We are grateful to the following galleries for their cooperation: Friedrich Petzel Gallery, Thomas Dane Limited, Lombard-Freid Fine Arts, ZieherSmith Inc., Elizabeth Dee Gallery, and CRG Gallery.
Hurvin Anderson’s experience of growing up in Trinidade, surrounded by racial barriers, is evoked in his enchanting yet deeply somber landscapes.
Mark Handelman explores our post-9/11 culture where “shock and awe” images regularly illuminate our TV screens, in his apocalyptic paintings bursting with light beams.
Melora Kuhn creates Goya-esque paintings of young girls that are both beautiful and disturbing. In spite of their pretty faces these paintings hint at something beneath the surface.
Julie Mehretu’s grandiose paintings look as if they could be maps of a virtual space, complete with suspended freeways and flashes of light.
Jeffrey Saldinger’s small-scale, carefully painted self-portraits encourage an intimate connection with the viewer.
Thomas Scheibitz paints a vision of a suburban utopia gone horribly wrong in Untiled (Nr. 182). This monstrous, grand scale work terrorizes its audience as it seems to threaten those who come to near.
Christoph Steinmeyer obsesses over the power and beauty of symmetry in his strikingly alluring yet threatening female figures. The perfect symmetry of Ligeia II is overwhelming and unsettling.
Charline von Heyl paints what could be the most sublime and provocative Roscharch tests in the history of the world. They seem to ask…What do you see?