Joerg Dressler & Mike Wright
11-24 August 2017
Provincetown sculptor Mike Wright, who creates abstract assemblages of found painted wood, is a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant winner. For this show, Wright is presenting a new series of wall sculptures called “Color Field”. Wright says: “The point of using found wood is that, as debris, it seems unpromising. But that lack of promise is also its appeal–the peeling paint, the colour scrubbed by salty waves, sand or human use. My principal parameter is that the wood must be found in Provincetown. The second is not to paint that wood, because its patina is impossible to duplicate.”
Joerg Dressler’s work is driven by nature and how we perceive it. He is presenting his experiences of reality filtered through his perception. As a result, disjointed experiences of the seen and unseen are reassembled, creating in the work a reality of its own. Joerg’s evocative, sensual paintings derive from a sincere dialogue between the representational and the abstract, the conceptual conscientiousness and pure spontaneity. While remaining uniquely his own visual communication, the vocabulary for his work is drawn from a cross-section of art history: Romanticism, Impressionism, Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, graphic design and photography.
With the series “Revisited,” Dressler is exploring a new body of work that may be considered a strong departure from his previous work as a painter. A closer look, however, reveals a natural evolution from the abstract to the representational, involving places in nature—all places he has visited at some point in his life. “The return to these places through the study of photos allowed me to pursue a more detailed depiction, aiming for a sense of depth in juxtaposition to crisp colour fields and organic splotches,” Dressler says.
(adapted from the gallery’s press materials)
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Alden Gallery
423 Commercial Street
Provincetown, Massachusetts 02657 USA
(508) 487-4230
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Image:(top)
Color Field Cadmium
by Mike Wright
12″x12″
found painted wood
Courtesy of the artist and Alden Gallery, Provincetown
Image:(centre)
Revisited IX (Schwarzwald)
by Joerg Dressler
30″x30″
acrylic on canvas
Courtesy of the artist and Alden Gallery, Provincetown