SELECTED WORKS BY Garth Weiser
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Garth Weiser
Baseboard Outlet
2006
Oil on canvas
228.6 x 304.8 cm |
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Garth Weiser’s paintings explore the nature of perception. Weiser’s process often begins by making a three dimensional model of an abstracted form as a ‘sketch’ or model from which to paint. Coating his canvases with thick impasto grids or relief outlines of his composition, Weiser underscores each painting with a textured foundation which enforces the illusionary elements of scale and perspective and the gives a mimetic quality of architectural space.
Using this blueprint of spatial order as a departure point for painterly invention, Weiser’s finished works disrupt and challenge visual expectation. Following the dictates of the underlying pattern, Weisher departs from the depictive ‘reality’ of still life to create mesmerising abstractions.
Enhancing the sense of three dimensional dept, striated bands of monochrome colour gain an ephemeral delicacy as liquidy hues gather within the bevelled creases of the under-painting, and tones are alternately deadened and intensified to create a heightened atmosphere of light; an effect designed for the purpose of interruption. Incorporating ultra-flat geometric shapes, irregularly angled lines, and organic motifs, Weiser readily confuses reality and illusion, forcing an optical confrontation between imaginary expanse and the tangible veritas of the picture plane. |
Garth Weiser
Something For The Weekend
2006
Oil on canvas
228.6 |
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Garth Weiser’s paintings explore the nature of perception. Weiser’s process with this body of work often begins by making a three dimensional model of an abstracted form as a ‘sketch’ or model from which to paint. Coating his canvases with thick impasto grids or relief outlines of his composition, Weiser underscores each painting with a textured foundation which enforces the illusionary elements of scale and perspective and the gives a mimetic quality of architectural space. Using this blueprint of spatial order as a departure point for painterly invention, Weiser’s finished works disrupt and challenge visual expectation. Following the dictates of the underlying pattern, Weiser departs from the depictive ‘reality’ of still life to create mesmerising abstractions. |
Garth Weiser
Frontier Delay
2006
Oil on canvas
259 x 167.6 cm |
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Garth Weiser
Mr. Bad Example
2007
Acrylic and oil on panel
266.7 x 210.8 cm |
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Garth Weiser
Nude #4, Red Grid
2007
Oil and acrylic on canvas
276.8 x 210.8 cm |
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ARTIST INFORMATION
Garth Weiser's BIOGRAPHY
1979
Born Helena, Montana
Lives and works in New York
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2006
Solo Exhibition at Guild & Greyshkul, New York
2005
Folk Machine, Guild & Greyshkul, New York
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2006
The Difficult Shape of Possible Images, ZieherSmith, New York
The Manhattan Project, Frederic Snitzer Gallery, Miami
2005
Hunch and Flail, Curated by Amy Silman, Artists Space, New York
Greater New York, PS1 MoMA, Long Island City
2004
Succeeding Where the Hippies Failed, LeRoy Neiman Gallery, New York
And One For Grandma, Capsule Gallery, New York
First Year Exhibition, curated by Ali Subotnick, Mariam and Eli Wallach Gallery, New York
2003
New Paintings, Coos Bay Art Museum, Coos Bay,Oregon
Arrivederci, The Houghton Gallery, New York
2002
Native, The House Gallery, Miami
Collector's Choice, The Nelson Fine Art Museum, Tempe
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