My work is about the places where the concerns of modernist painting meet my own experiences and the physical reality of the body. Often the subject matter is a visual bridge between painting tropes and the objects of everyday life. The lines of a lawn chair seat serves as a veiled reference to the grid, and its breakdown – presumably by human weight – to an imagined encounter with the human body. Eleanor Aldrich - studio visit July 2016 My work is textural and...
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TOPS is a contemporary art gallery founded in 2012 by Matt Ducklo located at 400 S. Front St. in Memphis, TN. An Attitude You Can Wear by Haynes Riley will be on view through Saturday, August 27. "Using both found and constructed forms Riley's individual art works create an environment that is both a response to the space and a product of its own internal logic. From the street, outside the gallery, the viewer can look down to the...
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As an artist I make paintings that exist in the sliver of space between abstraction and representation. I look to the lived daily experience of the world coupled with the artifacts of the past. My work compresses time into the surface and touch of painting, that old technology. Increasingly flora, fauna, and natural phenomenon have held my attention as I wrestle with this imagery within my paintings. Birds, plants, flowers, stones, and fires dissolve into the light of the screen,...
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