In this new series of hybrid sculptural paintings, Gronquist’s idiosyncratic gestural marks flirt with the protocols of classical Abstract Expressionism.
Opening Reception: Sat, Feb 1 from 4-6pm
Exhibition Run: Jan 16-Mar 1, 2025
Each painting’s rough, undulating surface topology appears to erupt from the flatness of the picture plane, only to finally coalesce like strange sedimentary deposits left behind by some unknown geological event of mythic, galvanic proportions.
In Gronquist’s imaginative formulation, each hard, shell-like carapace, resting on serene color-fields of milk-gold and blooming pink, illustrate the artist’s obsessive, ritualistic manipulation of materials over the course of months in the studio. The entire painting becomes a kind of “psychic tundra,” not dissimilar to the process of a traumatic wound being slowly absorbed and repressed by the mind / body in order for one to continue to function.
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