Monday, October 5
Timothy van Laar
Gallery 406, Arts West
Artist talk, 5:30 p.m.
These paintings are rooted in collage and its disruptive procedures. Simple, varied paint applications catalog a wide range of processes and at the same time become specific images and art historical references – a bird, a smear of black; a bowl, a puddle of transparent paint; a hard-edge grid of colored squares. Like collage and its radical recontextualization, the paintings examine the nature of representation and the function of signs. They are unsystematic and eccentric, offering visual puns, arbitrary relationships, and playful allusions to art history, personal stories and surprising shifts of materiality. Exhibition runs through October 29.