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april april is pleased to present Atlas, a solo exhibition by Pittsburgh-born and -based artist Owen Westberg. This is his first solo exhibition in the city.
In Atlas, Westberg proposes a new idiom for still-life painting and plein-airism not strictly indulged in arrangement, splendor, or capturing subject aura. In each painting, a container for experience is ushered toward a soft chasm of abstraction. Behind the curtains of physicality, Westberg emphasizes matter as an energetic fluid that keeps the psyche’s lights on.
Images here are akin to fumbling for a cell phone’s glow to look at the text of a menu, where pattern repeats across axes of their planes, much like Tiffany pendants hover above the booths of vintage restaurants.
In some of them, icons drift into view like clouds might—amid an image-cadence of recognizable scenes of gardens, plowed fields, a flower held scant in a measuring cup, respite. One imagines looking up while lying down in the Allegheny Cemetery, squinting to…
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april april is pleased to present Atlas, a solo exhibition by Pittsburgh-born and -based artist Owen Westberg. This is his first solo exhibition in the city.
In Atlas, Westberg proposes a new idiom for still-life painting and plein-airism not strictly indulged in arrangement, splendor, or capturing subject aura. In each painting, a container for experience is ushered toward a soft chasm of abstraction. Behind the curtains of physicality, Westberg emphasizes matter as an energetic fluid that keeps the psyche’s lights on.
Images here are akin to fumbling for a cell phone’s glow to look at the text of a menu, where pattern repeats across axes of their planes, much like Tiffany pendants hover above the booths of vintage restaurants.
In some of them, icons drift into view like clouds might—amid an image-cadence of recognizable scenes of gardens, plowed fields, a flower held scant in a measuring cup, respite. One imagines looking up while lying down in the Allegheny Cemetery, squinting to…
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