Michael St.Germain and Richard Dorff at Atlantic Works Gallery through September 24.
Colors do not exist without white but what is white without color?
In this show, Richard Dorff and Michael St.Germain explore this question with a focused selection of approaches and materials.
Rice flour is used to make paste for a sixteen-foot "toilet papier-mache" diptych which is draped in subtle bas relief shadows. Casting plaster is used to create intentional and process generated objects which explore shading and ambient color in the context of a generic "white" gallery.
A linear installation of "white" paint sample cards is activated and revealed by applied black gesso marks. A suspended box of natural white birch containing daylight-mimicking light tubes reveals the inherent elusive and subtle nature of white.
Works are displayed at a variety of heights and most of the gallery wall space is intentionally left vacant so that indirect lighting may lead the viewer's attention to the volume of the space which is integral to the activation of works on display.
In this show, Richard Dorff and Michael St.Germain explore this question with a focused selection of approaches and materials.
Rice flour is used to make paste for a sixteen-foot "toilet papier-mache" diptych which is draped in subtle bas relief shadows. Casting plaster is used to create intentional and process generated objects which explore shading and ambient color in the context of a generic "white" gallery.
A linear installation of "white" paint sample cards is activated and revealed by applied black gesso marks. A suspended box of natural white birch containing daylight-mimicking light tubes reveals the inherent elusive and subtle nature of white.
Works are displayed at a variety of heights and most of the gallery wall space is intentionally left vacant so that indirect lighting may lead the viewer's attention to the volume of the space which is integral to the activation of works on display.
white light/ white room
process is a process is a process
inner white
add to white
dieux (p)raw c'est
white out
Richard Dorff and Michael St.Germain @ Atlantic Works Gallery (http://atlanticworks.org/) through September 24, 2011. Gallery is open Fridays and Saturdays 2pm-6pm and by appointment. Please call 617-283-7113.
Atlantic Works Gallery (we have the best views!)
80 Border Street (3rd floor)
East Boston, MA 02128
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