in it for the LONG HAUL
in it for the LONG HAUL Robert Curcio, Curator October 5- November 4, 2023 LichtundFire175 Rivington Street, NYC
in it for the LONG HAUL Robert Curcio, Curator October 5- November 4, 2023 LichtundFire175 Rivington Street, NYC
Something like magnetic attraction joins certain descriptions to certain artists. Thus “gestural painter” attaches to Jonathan Feldschuh with automatic ease. How else would you label a painter whose images are the swerving, skidding traces of a wide brush wielded with virtuosic vitality? Feldschuh is a gestural painter, no doubt, and yet this readymade phrase is laden with implications that can lead us astray. Not every geometric abstractionist in the years between the World Wars was a utopian, like Piet Mondrian, nor do brushy bursts of energy always put personality on display, as they do in the early paintings of Joan Mitchell. When Feldschuh sends his brush careening over the surface, he is reaching for something beyond himself.
https://youtu.be/VgqzCOz-UdU Jonathan Feldschuh talks with curator Fran Kaufman, recorded from Zoom call 11/3/2021 at the 1GAP Gallery, during the show Dynamic Equilibrium Details of this
Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world.
—Albert Einstein
Walking into Jonathan’s studio one feels an immediate flow of energy: the colors are intense, the strokes are bold, there is an immediate sense of purpose and exploration. Hung high on the non-working wall are two dream-like paintings of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Switzerland, a miraculous feat of cooperative science that contains the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator. Facing them are large images painted on mylar inspired by particle theory, a dynamic imagining of the interactions of minuscule particles rooted in the specific mathematical formulas that govern their actions.
Solo show at the 1GAP Gallery is scheduled for September-December 2021. Curated by Fran Kaufman.
The term “citizen scientist” has become increasingly popular with the rise of DIY and crowdsourcing culture, where volunteer citizens can expand the capabilities and reach of scientists for the creation of larger and more comprehensive studies. Thanks to new apps and web-based platforms, the ability to participate in science is available outside of academia and industry. Science can now be done by a 14 year-old on her laptop, or an 80 year-old in his backyard garden. Citizens from all over the world are helping to solve some of our biggest and most complicated problems. And some of these citizen scientists, are artists.
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