Greg Bogin at Leo Koenig - art exhibition at the Tribeca gallery - Brief Article

Although the 34-year-old fresh York painter Greg Bogin has been showing in Europe for several years, surprisingly this was his first solo exhibit in his home city. Inaugurating Leo Koenig's novel Tribeca gallery (relocated from the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn) the present to view which carried the thematic title "Stop 'N' Shop" featured nine fresh paintings and two sculpture-furniture hybrids.

As with his previous work, Bogin continued to distill modular a whole s and structures that refer to ubiquitous phenomena of that kind as giant strip malls, package design and corporate logo To create his paintings, he stencils wide bands and squares of colorful enamel paint above bright acrylic grounds. These stacked shapes are many times outlined with black lines. Understanding of Digital Watches, a large horizontal diptych, opens bright red or yellow L forms that are flanked by dint of vertical bands of color. The painting's surface gazes as pristine as porcelain, although up shut up one can see partly obscur pencil markings. The 34-inch-square composition The Sunshine State consists of an off-center stack of three differently colored squares (r fiery pink and yellow). Observing the without contents squares and rectangles in these paintings, it's hard not to think of those annoying pop-up windows that appear upon Web pages, minus the array of advertising content

The sculptures--geometric turns covered in Formica--come across as effective three-dimensional versions of the paintings. Floral Arrangement, which visitors were permitted to sit upon is a low-lying, bright verdant Formica platform of three joined cubes of differing heights. A pott plant quieted on one end of the piece. Similarly, Conversation Piece invited individual to sit on its adjoining r and faux-wood Formica towers of varying height.

Bogin plays knowingly upon the fact that the corporate-style designs he respects were themselves influenced by 20th-century geometric abstract artists like as Mondrian. Balancing handmade qualities with the anonymity of high-tech graphics, he uses crooked humor to connect one generation of visual language to another.

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