Sexy grayscale at the Hole, NYC

Four abstract painters will be featured at the Hole, from December 16 to January 28, 2012.    The show is in fact called “…”.  The press release explains:

“Dot Dot Dot is a group exhibition exploring new trends in abstraction. The artists featured all explore a material-driven or process-based approach to abstract painting often with a strong dose of humour or the absurd.”

Work by: Kadar Brock, Matt Jones (not to be confused with THIS Matt Jones), Sam Moyer, and Scott Reeder. 

Kadar Brock, ‘awedu’, 2010, house paint, spray paint, marker, pen on canvas

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Kadar Brock, ‘dacs’, 2011, house paint, spray paint, and ballpoint pen on canvas

From the press release: “Kadar Brock took the neon paintings from his “failed” series of canvasses from 2006-2008 and in a seeming fit of despair, covered them with various whites, blues and greyed paints negating his former exuberance. Folded and pulled, they are then subjected to more angsty torture of sanding, shredding with a razor, more paint more sanding until Kadar ends up with a result that is a smooth as a baby’s butt, an evocative, ethereal surface. The patterns are dictated largely by a series of 12-sided dice rolls and an arbitrary compositional formula attached to the dice. How could so much despair and futility, not to mention arbitrariness turn into something so sublime? That is our puzzle.”

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Sam Moyer, untitled, 2010, ink and bleach on canvas, mounted on wood

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Matt Jones

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Major black and white theme so far.  Couldn’t find images of Scott Reeder’s work, sorry!  This looks to be a sexy, elegant, irony-laden show.