Past Exhibition
"Summoning Light"
January 15, 2005 ~ February 12, 2005
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Sabina Lee Gallery proudly presents
"Summoning Light", an exhibition of new paintings
by Gregg Renfrow. Since 1982, Bay Area painter Gregg Renfrow has been working on acrylic panels that allow light to filter through the pigment. The result is an illumination of color and form subtly projected from the surface of the work. While looking at the paintings, the bands of color may appear suspended in real time and space. He achieves this discoloration or de-materialization of the painted image by pouring polymer over acrylic panels. He is careful not to interrupt the runs of paint with the unpredictable effects of the carefully poured polymer and transparent support is that the process has occurred by itself through some power or force. As critic Kenneth Baker commented, "Renfrow strikes a fine balance between describing and summoning light in painting made of pigment-bathed, cast acrylic. These works find a resolution he has sought for years." |