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With the exhibition’s curator, Terri C. Smith, the artists will show and discuss their work, touching on painting’s influence on their studio practices.
The event is free and open to the public and will take place from 4 to 6 p.m.
“About Like So: The Influence of Painting,” features works that use paint in unorthodox ways or bypass the medium all together to reveal how the “language of painting” can invade, obstruct and enhance other media.
In her work, Naess uses glycerine as a performative medium to connect with the history of abstract expressionism. Included in “About Like So” are works composed of body friendly glycerine, scents, and pigments.
Through digital investigations, Theriault paints directly onto scanner beds and then scans the composition, allowing for the occasional burst of light to peek through the paint. For the piece “Tabula Rasa,” currently on display at Franklin Street Works, Theriault plays with traditional notions of painting by displaying his digital scan on an LED monitor which rests on an easel, complete with dried oil stains around its edges.
Versteeg’s “algorithm paintings” share formal traits with abstract painting, but are actually prints on canvas. Each work is composed by an algorithm the artist programmed using code. For the works in “About Like So,” Versteeg enters his algorithm paintings into the computer and prompts a Google image search to find a matching, "concrete" image, which is hung just to the right.
Other exhibiting artists are Polly Apfelbaum, Paul Branca, Taylor Davis, Tim Davis, Marley Freeman, Ragnheiour Gestsdottir, Michael Graeve, Dave Hardy, Alex Hubbard, John Knuth, Tameka Norris, Peter Nowogrodzki/Max Kotelchuck, Seth Price, Brad Tucker, Augustus Thompson, Leslie Wayne, "in actu: music and painting" (K.R.H. Sonderborg, Wolfgang Hannen, Günter Christmann and Paul Lovens).
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