High-Def:

Works by Don Voisine, Aaron Parazette, Jake Longstreth, Leonhard Hurzlmeier, and Chris Corales

December 21, 2010 through January 22, 2011

Gregory Lind Gallery is proud to present High-Def, new works by artists Don Voisine, Aaron Parazette, Jake Longstreth, Leonhard Hurzlmeier, and Chris Corales. The works of the assembled artists range from hard-edged abstractions to reductive shapes that display a keen visual range, sophistication, and architectural complexity.

The wood panel works of Don Voisine comprise simple overlapping shapes set against monochromatic fields and bordered by radiant bands of contrasting colors. His pieces evince a complex interplay between transparency and opacity, surface and dimensionality.

The pieces of Aaron Parazette point to an imaginative conceptual use of materials. Parazette�s vivid style of gestural abstraction is evident in his Color Key paintings, in which uniquely shaped panels combined with brightly colored geometric abstractions bring to mind the dense world of signage in urban landscapes. His spherical and shaped canvases are indicative of the artist�s investment in color, craft, mathematics, and the mechanics of painting.

Jake Longstreth creates paintings that interrogate the expansive, often alienating landscape of suburban sprawl. Longstreth utilizes basic elements of color and shape to represent familiar places, from commodious strip malls to sparse parking lots. His light-saturated, reductive imagery points to the generic complacency of our current condition through a discerning lack of detail.

Munich-based Leonhard Hurzlmeier�s paintings employ abstract motifs and narrative to explore the materiality of his craft and the subjective, personal nature of his creations. His textured surfaces, which are ruled by a systematic grid composition, are indicative of his aesthetic, which he refers to as �Geometric Symmetry.�

Chris Corales presents new found material works: a series of three-panel cardboard folding �books� ensconced with abstracted forms that flirt with the figurative. The pieces continue in Corales� tradition of juxtaposing unlikely assemblages from materials such as cardboard boxes, packing tape, clothing fabric, and other ephemera, and reconfiguring them into shapes that are simultaneously novel and proverbial.

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Don Voisine
Greenpoint Grey, 2009
Oil on wood
18 x 24

Don Voisine
Salute, 2009
Oil on wood
17 x 14 in.

Don Voisine
Chemical Moment, 2009
Oil on wood
16 X 17 in.


Don Voisine
Afloat, 2009
Oil on wood
26 x 20 in.

Don Voisine
Erasing Doubt, 2009
Acrylic and oil on wood
12 x 12 in.

Don Voisine
Raven, 2010
Oil on wood
10 x 10 in.


Aaron Parazette
Color Key 14, 2010
Acrylic on linen
22 x 20 in.

Aaron Parazette
Color Key 16, 2010
Acrylic on linen
24 x 24 in.

Aaron Parazette
Color Key 17, 2010
Acrylic on linen
32 in. diameter

Jake Longstreth
Matinee, 2009
Acrylic on canvas
47 x 47 in.


Leonhard Hurzlmeier
Kete, 2010
Acrylic and oil on canvas
17.25 x 11.5 in.

Leonhard Hurzlmeier
Kast, 2010
Oil on canvas
11 x 6 in.

Leonhard Hurzlmeier
Kist, 2009
Acrylic and lacquer on Masonite
17.75 x 11.75 in.


Chris Corales
Grau Ist Die Haarfarbe Meiner Wahren Liebe II
(Grey Is the Color of My True Love's Hair)
, 2010
Found paper shapes
6 5/8 x 21 1/4 in.

Chris Corales
Grau Ist Die Haarfarbe Meiner Wahren Liebe III
(Grey Is the Color of My True Love's Hair)
, 2010
Found paper shapes
6 5/8 x 21 1/4 in.

Chris Corales
Grau Ist Die Haarfarbe Meiner Wahren Liebe IV
(Grey Is the Color of My True Love's Hair)
, 2010
Found paper shapes
6 5/8 x 21 1/4 in.

Chris Corales
Grau Ist Die Haarfarbe Meiner Wahren Liebe V
(Grey Is the Color of My True Love's Hair)
, 2010
Found paper shapes
6 5/8 x 21 1/4 in.


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