Prepositional Painting
Prepositional Painting
by
CJ Nye
December 18, 2015 - January 16, 2016
chashama 300
300 West 30th Street
New York, NY
Artist Reception
January 13, 6:30pm
"Cupcakes and Questions Meet on the Street"
The artist will celebrate a belated birthday by fielding questions about the work. Meet on the sidewalk at 6:30 pm -BYOC- bring your own cocoa. Informal gathering to follow at Haymaker Bar and Kitchen.
Open Hours
Exhibition on view from the street 24/7
As the debate rages on as to whether painting is dead, atemporal, provisional, et cetera, et cetera, CJ Nye continues to paint. CJ has "always" painted, and painting, for the artist, is defined not by the fact that something may look painterly, but by the fact that the material, its qualities, informs the making; that oil paint remains one of the most versatile illusory tools ever invented which can depict reality faithfully, present as reality that which is impossible, and present only the fact of itself, all with equal alacrity. And that is only the picture plane.
Nye is interested in expanding the understanding of painting as something that can not only create the illusion of space as with perspective and realism, or exist substantially in space as AbEx taught us, or exist sculpturally within space as done by Ron Gorchov and Sam Gilliam, but as something that can occupy all of that space, and more—illusory, plastic, sculptural, and relational. This installation makes the case for paint in space, and place.
About the Artist
Born in NYC in 1974, CJ Nye has been painting in oils for over twenty-five years. Nye is a graduate of Columbia University, MA Arts Administration, and the School of Visual Arts, BFA. Re-emerging left-handed in 2010 after a taxi accident in 1998, Nye now shares exhibition news and process rant on social media as /CJNyeArt. Nye's work can be viewed at cjnye.com.
For more information, or to schedule an appointment to meet the artist, please contact: cjnye@cjnye.com.
by
CJ Nye
December 18, 2015 - January 16, 2016
chashama 300
300 West 30th Street
New York, NY
Artist Reception
January 13, 6:30pm
"Cupcakes and Questions Meet on the Street"
The artist will celebrate a belated birthday by fielding questions about the work. Meet on the sidewalk at 6:30 pm -BYOC- bring your own cocoa. Informal gathering to follow at Haymaker Bar and Kitchen.
Open Hours
Exhibition on view from the street 24/7
As the debate rages on as to whether painting is dead, atemporal, provisional, et cetera, et cetera, CJ Nye continues to paint. CJ has "always" painted, and painting, for the artist, is defined not by the fact that something may look painterly, but by the fact that the material, its qualities, informs the making; that oil paint remains one of the most versatile illusory tools ever invented which can depict reality faithfully, present as reality that which is impossible, and present only the fact of itself, all with equal alacrity. And that is only the picture plane.
Nye is interested in expanding the understanding of painting as something that can not only create the illusion of space as with perspective and realism, or exist substantially in space as AbEx taught us, or exist sculpturally within space as done by Ron Gorchov and Sam Gilliam, but as something that can occupy all of that space, and more—illusory, plastic, sculptural, and relational. This installation makes the case for paint in space, and place.
About the Artist
Born in NYC in 1974, CJ Nye has been painting in oils for over twenty-five years. Nye is a graduate of Columbia University, MA Arts Administration, and the School of Visual Arts, BFA. Re-emerging left-handed in 2010 after a taxi accident in 1998, Nye now shares exhibition news and process rant on social media as /CJNyeArt. Nye's work can be viewed at cjnye.com.
For more information, or to schedule an appointment to meet the artist, please contact: cjnye@cjnye.com.
