exhibition
Jim Napierala, The Vision Thing (Redux)
Date
October 1995Artist
Jim Napierala
About the exhibition
Jim Napierala
The Vision Thing (Redux)
Solo exhibition and drawing installation
October 6 - 31, 1995
Artist's Statement
My work is predicated on accepted Modernist strategies. By subverting these conventions I propose new perceptual and emotional schemata. In these works, the intuitive gesture (dripped enamel) is objectified by geometric structure (pattern). Geometry orders gesture into recognizable patterns, while disrupting its spatial complexity. Conversely, by respecting the moment when gesture escapes your control, it becomes a distinct entity, independent of structure and logic. Gesture and structure both undermine and abet one another in order to create a unified optic whole. It is at this precipice, between thinking and doing, that the work functions.
–Jim Napierala
New York City, 1995
