[January 17, 2013] Paul Kolker Gallery is pleased to present “Water, Water Everywhere”, an exhibition of Kolker’s new works on canvas based on his iPhone photographs of his Chelsea gallery’s flooding during megastorm Sandy.
Pictured above is a detail of “Reflection of the Artist,” 2012, inkjet and acrylic on canvas, 132×132 inches
It is two months since the Chelsea flood and Kolker, whose works are founded in photography, has compiled dark field photographs taken by him in the blackness of the flood. With low resolution of the smartphone camera, the images serendipitously pixelated themselves to look like mezzotints. He has further transformed them into his stylistic signature of fractionated works which are simultaneously abstract and figurative; all replete with a purposeful reference to the dot patterned media formatting of our normative way of seeing in our digital world of print, television, and computer screens. In addition Kolker’s new works, patterned with Ishihara colorblind test dots of varied sizes, are reminiscent of more ancient mosaics of stained glass windows.
Paul Kolker: “Water, Water Everywhere” is on view at Paul Kolker Gallery at 511 West 25th Street in Chelsea between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues from January 17 through Feb. 28th. For more information, please email info@paulkolker.com.