Jan
28
New Work Of Paul Donald–Facilitating Imagination.
Culverin (duckyvulture), 2011, Spray painted wood, 11" x 11" x 5 1/2"
Mr. Mortargnome, 2011, Spray painted wood, 12" x 7" x 6"
We are looking forward to receiving our first pieces by artist Paul Donald, in anticipation of a show in our West Gallery this coming October. They will be in the gallery for you to preview within a few weeks.
Paul’s work draws on three relatively simple components—cartoons, ornamental furniture and geometric abstraction—to construct objects and images with both symbolic and material significance, with abstract as well as physical weight and meaning. In his work the historical connotations and formal qualities of these components are made permeable and plastic. None of these components exists in pure form: they are intermingled to blur the formal as well as conceptual and abstract boundaries between elements. In this way, the works are like so much of what constitutes human thought, functioning as endlessly changing distinctions invented to facilitate imagination and to make sense of the world.