Art Exhibition: September 5 – October 6, 2013
Opening Reception: Saturday, September 7, 2013, 4–7pm
Artists’ Gallery is pleased to present “Concepts & Realizations,” an exhibition featuring the art of Alan J. Klawans and Andrew Werth. The show runs from Thursday, September 5, through Sunday, October 6, 2013. A reception with the artists will be held at the gallery (18 Bridge Street, Lambertville, NJ) from 4 p.m. – 7 p.m. on Saturday, September 7, 2013.
While Klawans and Werth both conceive of their artwork through the lens of abstraction, the two artists – now exhibiting together for the third time – realize their ideas using very different techniques.
Alan J. Klawans begins with photographs and digital scans of objects, textures, and colors from his travels around the world. “I think about some meaningful object or memory and then extrapolate that idea into something visually abstract,” Klawans says. “For my print, Normandie, I first considered the colors, textures, and shapes of the most luxurious ocean liner of the art deco era.”
He then combines this imagery digitally with hand-drawn graphic lines and shapes that serve both formal and metaphorical purposes. The end result is a series of framed, limited edition digital prints that have both the crispness of digital creation and the visual texture of the real world.
Andrew Werth’s acrylic paintings are about perception and they explore the interaction of color on multiple scales. The former software engineer designs his biomorphic compositions on the computer, often by simulating real-world biological processes and adding some tweaks and twists along the way. After toning the support and painting the base layers of the design, he proceeds to fill the surface with thousands of hand-painted marks of graduated color.
This year, Werth chose to paint on Dibond aluminum panels which are mounted so that they float nearly an inch off the wall. “The aluminum is strong, perfectly flat, and lightweight, which makes them great to paint on,” Werth says. “I like the contrast between the thin, 3 millimeter panels and the visual depth I’m aiming for in my paintings.”
Alan J. Klawans is an award-winning artist whose work is included in the collections of many prominent institutions including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the American Institute of Graphic Arts, and the Pennsylvania Historical Society. Before his long career as a designer and art director, he studied graphic design at the Philadelphia College of Art (where his instructors included AbEx painter Franz Kline and printmaker Benton Spruance). Klawans lives in Willow Grove, PA.
Andrew Werth received degrees in Computer Engineering and Information Networking from Carnegie Mellon University and has studied art at various schools in New York City including The Arts Students League, The School of Visual Arts, and The New School. His paintings have been exhibited at many tri-state venues from Philadelphia to New York. Werth lives in West Windsor, NJ.
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