GOOD VIBRATIONS

JoAnne Artman Gallery
Jul 10, 2020 10:15PM

The buoyant, light-filled paintings of Audra Weaser and the punchy color fields of Anthony Hunter are packed with good vibrations, and not just because of the Beach Boys reference. The perfect antidote to any socially-distanced summer doldrums, Weaser’s diffused shapes representative of landscapes connote gentle reverberations while Hunter’s bold color combinations create optical vibrations. Although stylistically different, the punctuation of lines and dots by both artists establish rhythmic pulsations that give us ‘the excitations.’

Audra Weaser
Supernatural, 2020
JoAnne Artman Gallery

With a channeled devotion to landscapes, the ebb and flow of the environment is reflected in Audra Weaser’s sanding process and surface quality. As in a body of water, the horizon line in each work serves as a point of reflection, creating two mirrored halves that at times seem to recede into the distance. Ripples, or variations in form, provide the idea of tension or motion of some kind of vibration or pull on the surface. There is a potential of stored energy in the works, the idea of equilibrium or a systematic balancing of opposing forces that is hidden in plain sight. This push and pull is reflected poetically in Weaser’s sanding down of the painted surface, as she transforms the landscape by excavation, finding the final form beneath the layers within.

Audra Weaser
Gold Gardens Diptych, 2020
JoAnne Artman Gallery

Vivid and colorful with a luscious surface quality, Anthony Hunter’s evocative abstract paintings are a study in controlled chaos. Hunter’s works exhibit a tight rein, as the artist manages the paint viscosity with a practiced hand in his chosen glossy, oil-based medium.

Though the works exhibit a color-field sensibility, the areas of flatness are punctuated by a lively, lyrical composition of lines, blobs, drips and drizzles that create a defined sense of movement and action. The bursting pigments are activated by the brisk drips and drizzly pours of liquid color. Hunter’s varying blobs and lines become protagonists in an action-landscape as they weave, dance and vibrate across the flat color fields of the paintings.

Anthony Hunter
Red, Red, Red Sky With White Squiggle and Yellow Blob Painting, 2015-2019
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