Shadow Language

Bruce Pearson

Apr 26 – Jun 7, 2019

Bruce Pearson

Erase Return, 2018

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Description

Bruce Pearson will exhibit new work from 2017 - 2019 comprising paintings, drawings, and photographs in his seventh solo exhibition at the Feldman Gallery.

The exhibition features large-scale paintings that are wall reliefs elaborately constructed from Styrofoam in which text, transformed to the point of near indecipherability and abstraction, is an element of the composition and also the title of each work. The paintings are fields of sensuous color and intricately creviced surfaces producing optical effects – a sensorial rich overload of color, pattern, and texture. For each of his ongoing series, Pearson establishes systems of varying parameters, with their own rules and references, in order to investigate the relationship of image, word, and meaning.