some paintings of things.

The things in the show title are not necessarily objects, though some clearly are. The things represented are more general, the way leaves inhabit and alter the perceptiion of a space throughout the seasons, and the way that light entering this space reinterprets it once more. The apparent simplicity of the coloured ball on a plate which itself sits on the small space defined by a table is changed in this case by the choice of colour of the ball, which determines something about the means of representation in terms of colour of each in the triptych of paintings.

One of the paintings at least is not about objects or events which we might encounter in the world, but it seems to be a thing when represented none the less; this one is the painting of the squares. This is not a picture of a square, once depicted it simply is a square whose material structure is nothing more than the means of representation; paint and the elements of pictorial languge, this seems to have just as much sense as a “thing” as the things encountered in the more direct representations of things seen. The three encounters represented here are the seasons in the small garden with the red door, evening light on a grove of giant seqouias, and the coloured ball in space, and also composed with other objects in a world of shadows and strong light.

keith martin. curator 2006.

1st sequence. until mid august 06.