B. Wurtz
Untitled, 2012
Wood, wire plastic netbags, thread
29 x 14 x 5.25 inches
Jonathan Lasker
A Second Partial History, 2008
Oil on canvas board
12 x 16 inches
Michelle Grabner
Untitled, 2014
Silerpoint and gesso on panel
36 inches (diameter)
Arlene Shechet
The Possibility of Ghosts, 2013
Glazed ceramic, steel
47 1/4 x 23 x 16 1/4 inches
Lisa Beck
Pier II, 2015
Oil and enamel paint on mylar
72 x 36 inches
Xylor Jane
Dying Everyday 1963 - 2044, 2006
Oil on panel
43 x 43 inches
Joanne Greenbaum
Untitled, 2013
Oil, acrylic, and ink on canvas
90 x 70 inches
Cary Smith
Pointed Splat #6 (yellow - pink with colorblock), 2013
Oil on linen
50 x 50 inches
Nancy Shaver
Material Excess, 1994 - 2004
Wooden blocks, silk, plaster, paper ink
12 x 11 x 6.5 inches
Chris Martin
Untitled, 2009 - 2015
Mixed media on canvas
46 x 38 inches
Micheal Berryhill
Beachcomber, 2016
Oil on linen
18 x 14 inches
Arlene Shechet
With History, 2015
Glazed ceramic, painted steel, and hardwood
32 1/2 x 22 x 17 inches
Steve DiBenedetto
Quasiopolis, 2015
Oil on linen
21 x 25 inches
Joanne Greenbaum
Untitled, 2014
Oil and archival marker on canvas
78 7/8 x 73 1/8 inches
Cary Smith
Straight Lines #25 (black), 2016
Oil on linen
25 x 20 inches
Steve DiBenedetto
Awkward Crease, 2015
Oil on linen
23 x 18 inches
Steve DiBenedetto
Haggler, 2015
Oil on linen
20 x 16 inches
Dan Walsh
Blink, 2013
Acrylic on canvas
40 x 40 inches
Strange Abstraction
JANUARY 21 – FEBRUARY 20, 2016
Opening reception: Thursday, January 21 from 6 to 8 pm
Lisa Beck
Michael Berryhill
Steve DiBenedetto
Michelle Grabner
Joanne Greenbaum
Xylor Jane
Jonathan Lasker
Chris Martin
Nancy Shaver
Arlene Shechet
Cary Smith
Dan Walsh
B. Wurtz
Fredericks & Freiser is pleased to present Strange Abstraction, an exhibition of painting and sculpture by thirteen artists who share an off-kilter approach to modernist abstraction. Each artist has established an individual artistic territory that is very much their own with work that is highly inventive in both the handling of materials and composition.
Strange Abstraction underlines a sensibility that has less to do with stylistic similarities than with a shared facility in uniting contradictory creative impulses. In the past we have viewed art as either intuitive or cerebral, as in the Robert Lowell dichotomy of “the raw and the cooked.” The strange or uncanny quality that runs through the works in this exhibition seems to come from the friction of allowing both idioms to exist at once, in varying degrees. They act like a Mobius strip; as soon as one takes hold in the viewer’s mind, the other asserts its strange but never disharmonious presence.
Fredericks & Freiser is located at 536 West 24th Street, New York, NY. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 10:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M. For more information on Strange Abstraction, please contact Mariana O’Naghten at (212) 633-6555 or email info@fredericksfreisergallery.com. Or visit us online at www.fredericksfreisergallery.com and on Instagram @fredericksandfreiser.
