Heidi Cho Gallery - Current Exhibition

The exhibition dates were from December 16 through
January 29

The seemingly pastoral landscapes of Mitche Kunzman often reference technology as a force in opposition to the environment. His paintings recall the haunting beauty of the 19 th Century landscapist, Frederick Church.

A “lyrical sense of abstraction” is how the artist Martin Mullin describes his work. The artist’s iconography remains true to his roots in Dublin. Mullin’s work has lush smooth surfaces. The richness of his painting comes from the infusion of pigment into the jesso as the canvases primed.

The works of Sandra Perlow serve as a window into a weightless color-drenched world in which expressive forms both float about and sometimes unite. The most important influence on Perlow is the painter Juan Miro. Inspired by natural shapes, Perlow’s work is both playful and joyful at the same time.

The sculptures of Donald Porcaro are playful, brilliant in color and seductive all at once. Porcaro’s studio offers up a myriad of contradictions, stone seems flimsy, metal is the color of magenta and objects that appear to be functional are but pure fantasy. A sense of history and archaeology pervade the artist’s work.

Painting and sculpture meld in the hands of Scott Richter. After a miraculous recovery from brain surgery in 1991 the artist returned to painting. He would prepare his palette, mix his paintings, spread it on, let it build up, stop and start again. One day he looked the layers of paint on his palette table and something clicked. Sensuous, oozing Dada-esque slabs are the artists icons.

Saturated with and internal luminosity, Susan Sharp’s forceful gestures engage us. The artist has a meandering line that wanders and loops in a lyrical fashion. Her painting surface is rich with seductive color as well as impulsive movement.

Psychological isolation informs the work of this newly immigrated artist, Jeong Eun Shim. The work references the artist’s own feelings of alienation in a strange land. The artist constructs her work from cloth and threads like a lone a suitcase or a straight jacket to commence a dialogue with the viewer.

Heraldic images and a vocabulary rife with form sometimes droll, sometimes skewed are elements in Robert Sussman’s work. High keyed color, iconic scrawl, and rickety geometry abound. The mystery is how these hodge podges cohese, seemingly by accident but undoubtedly through consummate skill.

Carving, pounding, gouging and attacking fresh pigment as if it were sculptural matter, Leslie Wayne dives into her paintings. Physical movement continuous and spontaneous informs the work. The outcome is sensuous and the forceful manner in which the object is crafted is essential to his being. Wayne offers a new way to define painting.




	Mitche Kunzman Red Dust oil and wax on canvas 2001 Martin Mullin Poem 1 2001 Donald Porcaro Nomad #21 Stone and painted copper 2001 Scott Richter Palette for Holding an Adequate Grudge Oil paint, Medium, Metal palette table 1999-2004 Susan Sharp Internal Logic 72" x 63" x 3" oil and pen on canvas, 2004 Jeong Eun Shim Skin Case 2003 Robert Sussman Untitled, #72284 18"x24" Acrylic on panel 2003 Leslie Wayne Breaking and Entering: Badaabang! Oil on wood 1999	The exhibition dates were from December 16 through January 29 The seemingly pastoral landscapes of Mitche Kunzman often reference technology as a force in opposition to the environment. His paintings recall the haunting beauty of the 19 th Century landscapist, Frederick Church. A “lyrical sense of abstraction” is how the artist Martin Mullin describes his work. The artist’s iconography remains true to his roots in Dublin. Mullin’s work has lush smooth surfaces. The richness of his painting comes from the infusion of pigment into the jesso as the canvases primed. The works of Sandra Perlow serve as a window into a weightless color-drenched world in which expressive forms both float about and sometimes unite. The most important influence on Perlow is the painter Juan Miro. Inspired by natural shapes, Perlow’s work is both playful and joyful at the same time. The sculptures of Donald Porcaro are playful, brilliant in color and seductive all at once. Porcaro’s studio offers up a myriad of contradictions, stone seems flimsy, metal is the color of magenta and objects that appear to be functional are but pure fantasy. A sense of history and archaeology pervade the artist’s work. Painting and sculpture meld in the hands of Scott Richter. After a miraculous recovery from brain surgery in 1991 the artist returned to painting. He would prepare his palette, mix his paintings, spread it on, let it build up, stop and start again. One day he looked the layers of paint on his palette table and something clicked. Sensuous, oozing Dada-esque slabs are the artists icons. Saturated with and internal luminosity, Susan Sharp’s forceful gestures engage us. The artist has a meandering line that wanders and loops in a lyrical fashion. Her painting surface is rich with seductive color as well as impulsive movement. Psychological isolation informs the work of this newly immigrated artist, Jeong Eun Shim. The work references the artist’s own feelings of alienation in a strange land. The artist constructs her work from cloth and threads like a lone a suitcase or a straight jacket to commence a dialogue with the viewer. Heraldic images and a vocabulary rife with form sometimes droll, sometimes skewed are elements in Robert Sussman’s work. High keyed color, iconic scrawl, and rickety geometry abound. The mystery is how these hodge podges cohese, seemingly by accident but undoubtedly through consummate skill. Carving, pounding, gouging and attacking fresh pigment as if it were sculptural matter, Leslie Wayne dives into her paintings. Physical movement continuous and spontaneous informs the work. The outcome is sensuous and the forceful manner in which the object is crafted is essential to his being. Wayne offers a new way to define painting.




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