Exhibition at Peter Blum Gallery brings together works by a group of five artists
Suzan Frecon, sunsnare (2), 2004. Oil and burnished gold leaf on fiberboard, 14 x 22 5/8 inches (35.6 x 57.5 cm).
NEW YORK, NY
.- Field of Vision brings together a group of five artists who are acutely sensitive to formal play in creating their own distinct painterly languages. Emphasizing the continued malleable nature of painting as a practice, each artist uses deep material knowledge in their innovative approaches to the medium, allowing for the works to be read intuitively and sensorially.
Kamrooz Aram (b. 1978, Shiraz, Iran) has developed a rich painting practice that reconsiders the position of ornamental and decorative art within the trajectory of Modernism. Referencing the exoticized arabesque in his paintings, the organic forms enclosed in framing borders are pulled from grids in a process of drawing and erasure. This heightens the connection to the ornamental and renegotiates ornaments subordinated role in Western abstraction.