Conduit Gallery will open three new exhibitions with a reception for the artists Saturday, May 20, 2017 from 6-8 p.m. The exhibitions will be on view through July 1, 2017.
Throughout his career, Robert Jessup has approached his paintings with an improvisational manipulation of form that would lead the way toward the discovery (or uncovering) of meaningful configurations. In earlier works, those configurations were representational. However, in the last few years, the search for meaningful form has gradually been taking precedent over representational imagery. The desire for the painting to find its own unique presence on the canvas and to settle into a sustained resonating chord of visual sound has become paramount for Jessup who notes, “Painting has been distilled to what for me are its fundamental questions. How is the paint spread across the surface? How is the painting’s first shape, the rectangle itself, divided and occupied by areas of different color? How do those areas interact with each other? What kind of edges are formed? Color, edge, shape, and surface. The reconciliation of the fundamental forces of the horizontal and the vertical. From a beginning in visual chaos, the struggle to determine essential things and to find a powerful harmony between them.”
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