FIGUREWORKS GALLERY WILL BE CLOSED IN AUGUST
August 2 - August 24, 2008
SANS QUOI gallery
1-4-15 chikko
Tamano-City Okayama-Prefecture Japan
A number of Figureworks artists are pleased to be included in a unique Tote Bag Exhibition in Japan this summer. Each artist was provided a blank canvas bag to alter in their own distinctive style.
f76, mixed media on canvas, 2008, 48" x 48"
Joachim Marx
Samasati
SEPTEMBER 5 - OCTOBER 19 , 2008
Reception - Friday, September 5th, 6-9PM
Figureworks is pleased to open the fall season with new paintings by Joachim Marx. Marx believes that there are still timeless human themes that ask for a contemporary image. He paints floating, falling or suspended figures in an undefined space. These are figures that are thrown into the painting just as human beings are thrown into existence, trying to comprehend their being here, trying to remember their true nature.
Still, with this seemingly haphazard approach, the formal aspects are clear: the grounds, the material qualities of the paints and their application, surfaces, textures. Often the surfaces don't seem painted. It seems they somehow happened. They suggest a space and in this space Marx places his figures. With this continuity of thought on our existence, Marx figures do not readily reveal themselves. Their union with the space beautifully compliments each composition. The technique inspires the subject matter and the subject matter inspires the technique. And it is repetition that reveals an observing and meditative approach to painting.
Joachim Marx, born 1960 in Germany, received his MFA in 1991 from the New York Academy of Art. He has exhibited in numerous shows in commercial galleries, public spaces and museums in the US as well as in Germany. German public television featured him in a 30 minute documentary called "Marx and the Culture of Contradiction" in 1993. He lives in New York City.
Figureworks
168 North 6th Street
Williamsburg • Brooklyn, NY 11211
718-486-7021
Hours: Friday, Saturday, Sunday
1 - 6 pm or by appointment
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