FROSTED

Alex Calinescu, Fieroza Doorsen, Joe Novak, Peter Rasmussen, Matthew Tyson, Jenny Wiggins

1 December 2005 - 13 January 2006

FROSTED is an exhibition which draws together the work of six abstract artists from the UK, France and the USA, all of whom work in a variety of media
including painting, mixed media and print.

The works in the show are defined by a sensitivity to material, each artist working through a process of reducing the image to its essential elements - the
starkness of a single line against a bare canvas, the pool of colour in an aquatinted monoprint or the architectonic grid of a drawn structure against a
painted or printed surface.

Alex Calinescu, who has recently been awarded the 2006 Albers Foundation Residency in Connecticut, shows two recent new series of small canvas and mixed media works. Calinescu’s spare, elegant images combine calligraphic elements with an assured use of empty space within the picture plane. A limited edition bookwork with text by Nigel Warburton and a unique drawing, is available for the show.

Fieroza Doorsen has shown her intricate works on paper in a number of notable exhibitions including By Hand, Hales Gallery, London and Works on Paper, Hamiltons, London. Working over an already established grid of printed paper, Doorsen draws organically, establishing further networks of structure through graphic line or painted volume.

Joe Novak is an established Los Angeles based painter who shows regularly in the USA. Working in a vein of minimalist abstraction that alludes to the work of Mark Rothko and Mark Tobey, Novak has developed large scale installations of his meditative paintings within architectural contexts. We are delighted to be able to show a number of individual aquatint etchings from his series Voices 2.

Peter Rasmussen will be having his first solo show with the Eagle Gallery in Spring 2006. In the current exhibition he shows three large scale works on
paper which combine painting and monoprinting in a dialogue of surfaces. Rasmussen has shown regularly in the UK and Europe since 1987.

Painter and printmaker Matthew Tyson has been based in France for over ten years where he runs Imprints with Isabella Oulton, producing and publishing bookworks and graphics by international artists including David Rabinowitch and Werner Haypeter. Tyson’s recent work has taken observations from landscape interpreting them as simple intense diptychs of colour and collaged paper.

Jenny Wiggins uses maps as the basis of her paintings and mixed media works, overlaying the printed paper ground with layers of paint she works back into with sandpaper. This carefully modulated process of chance and design reveals an array of textures and surfaces where the graphic content of the maps appear as chance fragments in a more organic whole.