Exhibit Opening at Franklin Street Works on Saturday: An Exploration of What Happens When Painting Breaks Out

Franklin Street Works, located in Stamford around the corner from the UConn Campus, opens a new exhibit on Saturday called "About Like So: The Influence of Painting," which explores what happens when painting breaks out of its frames, canvases and other supports. The show  aims to dismantle the romantic notions of painting through unorthodox use of paint or by bypassing the medium all together to reveal how “the language of painting” invades, obstructs and enhances other media such as video, sound, and sculpture. The public opening on November 22 runs from 6-8pm. 

It isn’t news that painting, like sculpture, has entered an expanded field where its forms and functions are shifting and are no longer limited by a rectangular canvas or the isolation of a studio practice.  The artists in this exhibition embrace virtually every medium. The works include: videos that mix music with action painting; sound installations that allude to abstract painting; and “paint rags” made of a thick layering of paint, seemingly peeled from an artist’s pallet and hung on a hook.

Exhibiting artists include: Polly Apfelbaum, Paul Branca, Taylor Davis, Tim Davis, Marley Freeman, Ragnheiour Gestsdottir, Michael Graeve, Dave Hardy, Alex Hubbard, John Knuth, Sophy Naess, Tameka Norris, Peter Nowogrodzki/Max Kotelchuck, Seth Price, Paul Theriault, Brad Tucker, Siebren Versteeg, Augustus Thompson, and Leslie Wayne.

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