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New two-person show opens in the Fine Arts and Design Library

by Patricia Campbell on 2019-09-20T12:40:16-06:00 in Library | 0 Comments

A new two-person show “Awww oasis, I wish I gave you text and relief“—the work of John Phillip Abbott and Barry Hazard is on view at the Fine Arts and Design Library through Nov. 16.

Curator and library employee Jonathan Hartshorn describes the show, “How can anyone begin to contextualize the work of two people who commonly speak to places both distant and near? In very different ways both artists understand the attempt to surmise is futile. Whether venturing to convey transitory whispers of conflicted surroundings or a stark consideration of self, John and Barry welcome the push back.”

Images of the artworkJohn Phillip Abbott is an assistant professor of painting & drawing in the UNM College of Fine Arts. He received his MFA in 2007from the University of Wisconsin. Abbott has exhibited in many US and international venues.

He describes his work, “This work consists of text-based abstract paintings made with spray paint on raw canvas. The use of text allows me to introduce suggestions of a narrative that is economic and direct as well as organizes the space of the picture plane like that of a grid. The words in the paintings come from memories but suggest alternate meanings that are not isolated or defined by only my experiences. Personal associations with the word or words allow for informed formal decisions. My intent is to make something stemming from a personal cache that is open-ended and suggestive of multiple reads and ruminations and to develop a visual language that flickers between what is read and what is seen, between solidarity and dissolution.”

Barry Hazard received his MFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York NY in 2008. He lives and works in New York and Boston.

“My work falls somewhere between drawing, painting and sculpture. I make gesso-drawings, relief-paintings and sculpture-paintings on paper and panels. I am especially attracted to landscape subjects that are icons of beauty, such as mountains, forests, deserts and bodies of water. Sometimes these subjects have an inferred environmental or historical conflict.  I also bring my own inferences and psychological baggage to the space, a sort of contamination of my own vision. For me, the process of creating a picture is as much about the mitigating of these conflicted subjects, as it is about making “Beauty”.

The exhibit is on view during all hours the library is open.

 

 

 

 

 


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