Continuing through September 28, 2013
Eva Speer fetishizes paint, even as she critiques it. In previous bodies of work, she interrupted representational imagery — dark, rolling waves — with passages of searing, expressionistic brushstrokes, which seemed to flare and flash like psychedelic tracers. In her current exhibition, "Alone Together," she draws similar attention to the painted surface by superimposing gestures atop immaculate, minimalist surfaces.
"Triangulation" and "Game #4" feature creamy swirls of latex paint, layered on cast-resin and acrylic surfaces, pointedly contrasting the paint’s lusciousness with the spartan background. This makes for a destabilizing pastiche of painterly opulence and reductivist surface. In "More or Less (Blind)," she riddles a red plastic box with holes, then whimsically places the resulting plastic widgets inside the box. Variations on this motif include the striking, acid-yellow "More or Less (Dose)" and the cobalt-blue "Echo Box #3," which contains a wooden square visible through an opaque container. While these works may not pack the sheer dramatic impact of Speer’s wave paintings, they are nevertheless handled with technical assurance and panache.
