 – Going on view November 7, 2021 at the Parrish Art Museum in three solo exhibitions entitled: “peter campus: when the hurly burly’s done”, “Virginia Jaramillo:…){kind=link}
WATER MILL, NY (PNAN) – Going on view November 7, 2021 at the Parrish Art Museum in three solo exhibitions entitled: “peter campus: when the hurly burly’s done”, “Virginia Jaramillo: The Harmony between Line and Space” and “John Torreano: Painting Outer Space/Inner Space, 1989 to Present” will feature new and never-before-seen work by these East End artists in the seventh decade of their careers and at the top of their creative powers.
A new media and video artist, peter campus made his first video in 1971, using black-and-white, portable equipment. This marked the beginning of his life-long engagement with the medium.
In a solitary pursuit over this past year, artist campus captured locations around the shores of Shinnecock Bay near his home in East Patchogue, NY, stationing his video camera to maintain a static point of view. Nine of these continuous video loops invite the viewer to experience the sublime beauty of the natural and the ordinary: a hunter’s duck blind floats on the water, red plastic safety netting entwines a fence, beach grass and sparse leaves on a solitary tree blow in the wind.
As a painter in the late 1960s, John Torreano has always charted his own course. With the universe as his muse, he combines realism infused with abstraction to create works that conflate time and space. His exhibit will feature 10 large-scale paintings on plywood panels, studded with gems and wood balls.
The artist reflects on the mysteries and wonders of the cosmos in these works, which were inspired by images transmitted by the Hubble Space Telescope. Its scientific documentation of nebula and stars can also be read as pure abstraction, inspiring the artist to create imagery that contrasts the physical with the illusory.
A minimalist who has practiced for more than six decades, Virginia Jaramillo creates her work from sources that span histories and cultures. Featuring five newly created paintings, the exhibit will also feature two monumental works, Quantum Entanglement (2019–2020) and Quanta (2021), 12-foot canvases which will be installed face-to-face.
In each painting, expansive fields of color are crisscrossed by impossibly uniform, razor-thin lines; the artist’s visualization of communication between quantum particles across the vastness of space.
Additional 2021 works include Song of Amergin, which evokes the earliest spoken Irish poem, an incantation of man’s identity with nature; They Spoke without Talking depicts an epic confrontation between technology and creativity; and in Shaman’s Dream, Jaramillo explores the world of the unconscious mind.
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