GLOAMING:
Recent Paintings
Exhibition Dates: May 31, 2003 – July 5, 2003
Reception for the Artist: Saturday, May 31, 2003
Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Friday: 10:00am - 5:30pm, Saturday: 11:00am
- 5:30pm
Public Contact: 310-657-9843
Koplin Del Rio Gallery is pleased to announce our fourth exhibition
with Stephen P. Curry entitled Gloaming.
Gloaming is the period that transpires as night approaches.
Curry preserves the nature of light and shadow at this brief
time when the sky remains bright but the earth becomes shadowed,
flattened and silhouetted. Objects lose their distance and definition,
the diffusion of lines and color, reflect in the retreating luminosity
of sundown.
Stephen Curry’s new paintings meld familiar landscape
and architectural elements with a contemporary, abstract painting
sensibility. The painting process itself is the primary concern
of this work, while the subject matter is a vehicle for the composition,
building blocks of lines and chaotic pattern. The paintings are
modular sections of panels that compositionally work on their own,
as well as combined with the other panels regardless of their arrangement.
The primary focus of the paintings is color, brushwork, complex
details, and the capricious materiality of the paint. Layers of
transparent alkyd are poured over the finished painting encasing
it in color like an insect entombed in amber. The process suggests
destruction and metamorphosis simultaneously. The original painting
remains visible under the surface; however, it is obscured and transformed
by color and reflection.
Stephen Curry resides in San Diego. He received his BFA from
the San Francisco Art Institute in 1990 and has exhibited in La
Jolla and San Francisco, the William D. Cannon Art Gallery, and
the California Center for the Arts Museum. His publications include
Artnews, the San Diego Union Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, and
Art in America.
