Sam Trioli, Untitled (Heat), 2012 Oil on canvas, 48 x 36" Installation image courtesy of the artist |
Howard Yezerski Gallery is proud to present Brumaire, an exhibition of new paintings by Sam Trioli. The paintings in Brumaire are an investigation of abstraction through the eyes
of a photorealist painter. Absorbing
the grainy details of an old photograph, the paintings seek an emotive
response, pushing a historical moment to the tingle of Rothko and Richter.
Howard Yezerski Gallery - Sam Trioli: Brumaire On View October 26 - December 22, 2012 Image courtesy of Sam Trioli |
Trioli's paintings recreate moments of material
force. In these explosions, burning fields, and nuclear clouds, constant force
becomes the composition as hyperrealist images fall into abstraction. Trioli is
particularly interested in the abstract qualities of early photography; the
grain and blown out light are abstract recordings of a moment. He continues the conversation of the
ever more distant historical moments through their physical and material
contexts.
Sam Trioli, Untitled (Melt), 2012 Oil on canvas, 12 x 9" |
Untitled (Melt), images the explosion of the
Hindenburg in 1937. An iconic
image cropped just enough to evade recognition, it steps away from its original
context. No longer standing in for a tragic failure of technology, the image
becomes about heat and contrast. The frame crumples into itself, white flames
spreading into the black sky above, a dance between the detail of photorealism and
the ambiguity of abstraction.