Nov.6th – 30th 2012
Bridgette Mayer Gallery
709 Walnut
Philadelphia
The third solo show by Charles Burwell features 15 new paintings, each a carefully considered series of choices as well as ongoing adjustments to those choices. Built from complex systems of layering that rely on the overlap of solid and patterned shapes with a specific structure of carefully dripped lines, Charles Burwell’s compositions are immensely labor-intensive.
His work explores the relationship between geometric structure and the organic flow of nature by combining forms derived from biology, archaeology and natural history with other graphic, computer-generated elements. This body of work introduces new complex grid patterns to the forms, and experiments with varying levels of density of his forms. The computer also allows the artist to work through numerous possibilities for each painting quickly, before he ultimately decides what to put down in paint. The artist states: “I see my work as a continual evolution from work done twenty years ago when biology, science and the natural world were major influences to the present where the desire to integrate the organic or nature with the mechanical is important. The use of the computer is part of that evolutionary process.”
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