Surface

Surface – of, on, or pertaining to the surface; apparent rather than real.. This exhibition aims to bring together a group of diverse artists, working in various mediums, who all push the boundaries of a typical art object’s surface. Jeffrey Palladini, Klari Reis, and Piero Spadaro each invite the viewer to question what is before them and further examine. Jeffrey Palladini’s Monitor Paintings, as their title denotes, are painted television monitors with a digital video running on a fixed loop. The conceptual underpinning of these works is the duality between stillness and motion, the passive and the active, and the tensions created between the two. Klari Reis is exhibiting both painting and installation based pieces that are anything but traditional. In both bodies of works, Reis uses the tools and techniques of science, constantly experimenting with new ways to apply materials and methods. Piero Spadaro enlists assorted materials such as glitter, textured paper, ground pigment, acrylic, and resin to create paintings in the color field tradition with a revamped and provocative contemporary vibe.