The Obstacle (7/14/2015)
Painting
Year: 2015
Edition: Unique
Technique: Acrylic on museum board
Framed: No
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All artworks on IdeelArt are original, signed, delivered directly from the artist's studio, and come with a certificate of authenticity.This artwork is part of the series "A Painting A Day".
The pieces from the series may come as quite a shock to people who have always viewed Langley's work as being exclusively hard edged.
During the course of the year 2015, the artist has been trying to focus on approaching this work with openness, eagerness, and a lack of preconceptions of the final outcome.
He is hoping to find new ways of working and discovering qualities about his work that are currently unknown to him.
Matthew Langley is an abstract American artist. He is interested in a balance of color and process, mark making and field, scale and relationship, planning and improvisation. He lives and works in New York City.
Education
The artist studied at Virginia Commonwealth University and graduated from the Corcoran School of Art in 1986.
Technique
Matthew's technique in creating the artworks comes from building and extending as well as reducing and minimizing the painted surface. He believes that this is not counter-productive, and that often the way forward is to build, rebuild and start again. Often this will employ semi-transparent layers of paint combining the under surface of the artwork to achieve the artist's intent.
Inspiration
Langley's artistic background relates to a wide variety of interests. He is well versed in Color Field painting—in particular, work by Morris Louis, Sam Gilliam, and Gene Davis, as well as the abstraction from Mark Rothko, Richard Diebenkorn, Callum Innes among others. The artist also has a great interest in the physical paint-handling of artists like Anselm Kiefer and Gerhard Richter.
Collections
Langley's work is featured in various corporate as well as public collections, including MacAndrews & Forbes and the Doris Patz Collection (University of Maryland University College).
Exhibitions
The NYC-based artist has widely exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in the United States, mainly on the East Coast. His recent one-man shows include The New Paintings at Blank Space, New York, NY in 2015, and Looking In: New Painting at Axom, Rochester, NY in 2014. His upcoming solo exhibition will be on view at Susan Calloway Fine Arts from September 16 until October 22, 2016. Langley's work has been covered in publications such as Art in America and The Washington Post.
Galleries
Blank Space, NYC Sponder Gallery, Boca Raton, FL Calloway Fine Art, Wash DC Page Bond Gallery, Richmond VA
Upstart Modern, San Francisco CA Axom Gallery, Rochester NY KW Contemporary, Kennebunk, ME Sara Nightingale, Sag Harbor, NY Arteria Gallery, Bromont, Canada
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