An exciting survey of works from artists who exhibited in 2007 and a preview of what to expect from Casey Kaplan in the
New Year, This Winter highlights the diverse
aesthetic principles, techniques and ideologies that inspire the gallery program.
In creating her works the artist draws inspiration from both established formal
principles of Western painting and the rich traditions of Islamic art, however the
aesthetic outcome is a
new order that is foreign to both.
His intensely hued portrayals of sites in Havana, Miami,
New York, and the Middle East feature rectilinear overlays of strong, intensely moody colors that integrate multiple allusions to reason and its traditions — the ideal planned - city street grid; the Golden Ratio and its long history as a supposedly true and self - evident compositional
principle; the sharp - edged, no - nonsense Bauhaus
aesthetic — with subtle references to the small flashes of vitality and inspiration that lurk within even the most drab and desolate environments.