a series of shifting landscapes / Timm Mettler
Painting exhibition by Timm Mettler. Exploring space in painting, in particular the dynamic spaces caught in the openness of place.

 

CEM Series 004

CEM Series 004

5x5 001

5x5 001

Dec. Series 003

Dec. Series 003

 

Program Overview

This Series of Shifting Landscapes charts a painter’s ten-year journey from youth to maturity in age and in art. The paintings are like the Polaroid photographs the artist sometimes uses for inspiration: a visual record of the trek.

Sound Installation by Paul Burton. Curated by David Bewley. This exhibition is dedicated to Kenneth Mettler.

Artist Statement

I feel that space and form play an important recent role in the development of my work. Through landscapes I like to also explore space in painting, in particular the dynamic spaces caught in the openness of places like fields, vacant parking lots, industrial zones in cities, etc. I go about this by transmuting different proportions of negative space onto dissimilar arbitrary proportions of canvas. The geometric shapes oppose perspective and perspective in turn opposes what we know about the physical world. More accurately, visual perspective challenges the viewer’s perspective. There is also an additional emotional element in the works. Colors and forms can create the intense feeling of distance and claustrophobia. These simulate a feeling of artificial distance. This series of work addresses composition, tactile and glaze/glass-like layering, and color relativity. The continuity in the paintings can be summed up in the tension created by oppositional color and harsh geometrical angles.






   

Program Dates & Times

09/14/07 - 10/06/07

Exhibit
Tuesday - Saturday
12:00 - 4:00 pm

Opening Reception
09/14/07
6:00 - 9:00 pm

Admission

Free and open to the public.