Nüart Gallery presents, “Materiality" a group exhibition of new work by two abstract artists working in textual abstraction. The exhibition will run May 21st through June 6th 2021.
Join Nüart Gallery for an exhibition of abstract work featuring Peter Stephens’ acrylic and mixed-media paintings of crisp perceptual depth and materiality as well as the deep material richness of William T. Carson’s works created of raw coal.
Peter Stephen’s layered paintings of tactile richness are precise acrylic lines applied over an underlying grid of commercial paint sample cards. The resulting blend of color combinations and the patterns that create them are conceptually influenced by Stephen’s wonder at science and the “the physics behind mechanisms of pattern generation” but are physically evocative of textiles and complex architectural mosaics.
Using 60 million year-old coal mined near his childhood home on his family’s cattle ranch in Decker, Montana, William T. Carson’s sculptural wall constructions present coal in its raw form. In his work, Carson offers the viewer the opportunity to consider this ancient material as an aesthetic and conceptual medium, for, as he writes, “ the way it reflects light…[and] for the way it reminds us of deep time and the millions of years that led to our existence.”
