Exhibition February 28 - May 7, 2022; Artist Talk and Walkthrough: Wednesday March 16th at 6:30 pm
"Cut and Paste. Repeat: Ray Beldner Solo Exhibition"
Exhibition Dates:
February 28 - May 7, 2022
555 California St. San Francisco, CA
* * * Artist Talk and Walkthrough: Wednesday March 16th at 6:30 pm * * *
Casey and Associates Art Advisors is proud to present a solo exhibition featuring new work by Ray Beldner. With an affinity for scale, shape, color, and texture, Beldner makes uniquely colorful, playful collages and assemblages inspired by the art and art history.
Beldner uses fragments of historic and contemporary artworks as the starting point for his work. The melange of images layered onto the surfaces, at the same time familiar and foreign, are meant to disorient and lead the viewer through an endless examination of organic shapes, colors and textures, His process is intuitive and focuses on the visual tension between negative/positive space, figuration/abstraction, and how 2D forms occupy, define and create space.
Over time, this body of work developed from simple layered fragments of paper to large-scale assemblages and free-standing sculptures. After two years of lockdown, he has taken a turn toward even brighter colors and patterns as a visual relief from the isolation and social unrest of the past year. Ultimately, this work offers an energetic experience of color, shape, texture and scale, where you can lose yourself in the visual activity of the collages and recalibrate your habitual perceptions of reality.
Free
Presented by Ray Beldner.
Exhibition February 28 - May 7, 2022; Artist Talk and Walkthrough: Wednesday March 16th at 6:30 pm
"Cut and Paste. Repeat: Ray Beldner Solo Exhibition"
Exhibition Dates:
February 28 - May 7, 2022
555 California St. San Francisco, CA
* * * Artist Talk and Walkthrough: Wednesday March 16th at 6:30 pm * * *
Casey and Associates Art Advisors is proud to present a solo exhibition featuring new work by Ray Beldner. With an affinity for scale, shape, color, and texture, Beldner makes uniquely colorful, playful collages and assemblages inspired by the art and art history.
Beldner uses fragments of historic and contemporary artworks as the starting point for his work. The melange of images layered onto the surfaces, at the same time familiar and foreign, are meant to disorient and lead the viewer through an endless examination of organic shapes, colors and textures, His process is intuitive and focuses on the visual tension between negative/positive space, figuration/abstraction, and how 2D forms occupy, define and create space.
Over time, this body of work developed from simple layered fragments of paper to large-scale assemblages and free-standing sculptures. After two years of lockdown, he has taken a turn toward even brighter colors and patterns as a visual relief from the isolation and social unrest of the past year. Ultimately, this work offers an energetic experience of color, shape, texture and scale, where you can lose yourself in the visual activity of the collages and recalibrate your habitual perceptions of reality.
Free
Presented by Ray Beldner.
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