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Miguel Abreu Gallery is pleased to announce the opening, on Thursday, March 12, of The Knot, the third one-person exhibition by Alex Carver at the gallery.
Across 12 paintings, Carver reaffirms his commitment to the use of frottage, monoprinting and deliberate brushwork as means to achieve complex surfaces and spatial conditions for painting. These varied techniques deliberately confound traditional dichotomies such as inside and outside or body and world. As a central motif, the knot appears both as a discrete visual icon and as a broader compositional and visual disposition towards the painted image. Carver plays with the inherent contradictions and connotations of the knot as both a material entanglement and as a pure conceptual object which both convolutes and binds, as much as it clarifies and tethers.
To produce his works, the artist often begins by making a series of low-relief, frieze-like sculptures which he then places behind unstretched canvas attached to his studio wall. In…
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Miguel Abreu Gallery is pleased to announce the opening, on Thursday, March 12, of The Knot, the third one-person exhibition by Alex Carver at the gallery.
Across 12 paintings, Carver reaffirms his commitment to the use of frottage, monoprinting and deliberate brushwork as means to achieve complex surfaces and spatial conditions for painting. These varied techniques deliberately confound traditional dichotomies such as inside and outside or body and world. As a central motif, the knot appears both as a discrete visual icon and as a broader compositional and visual disposition towards the painted image. Carver plays with the inherent contradictions and connotations of the knot as both a material entanglement and as a pure conceptual object which both convolutes and binds, as much as it clarifies and tethers.
To produce his works, the artist often begins by making a series of low-relief, frieze-like sculptures which he then places behind unstretched canvas attached to his studio wall. In…
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