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Tinsquo's curatorial project, Adjacent To Life, presents Paintings at Tenth Street 2023 by Peter Stankiewicz.
Stankiewicz's statement:
Trying to do something a little surprising with spraypaint (mostly for the background) and airbrush. Still keeping away from using an actual brush, with which I find it hard to do anything fresh. Still trying to get colors to fit together. Still trying to create atmosphere in a picture.
No brushwork, no fine facture, no ‘hand’. No drips, almost. No canvas texture.
Not even a complete mark but one abraded and scraped away.
Still, one can compose pictures by putting colors and gestures together.
Phantom painting
Meteorological excavations
Geological forecasts
Raw, awkward, unpolished
Little or no facility, only a sensibility.
Uncertain formulations, no geometric proofs involved.
Dark and comfortable moods, frozen fireworks
Nocturnal or subterranean roots
Wages of a youth spent watching the moon through the studio window.
Spirits without names or stories, absences.
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Paintings at Tenth Street 2023 is on view through May 12 at the Adjacent To Life gallery hosted by Ninth Street Espresso (341 E. 10th Street at Ave B, New York City).
Posted by Mark Roth at April 15, 2023 12:24 AM