"Summertime 99"
1999-08-07 until 1999-10-01
Rebecca Ibel Gallery
Columbus, OH, USA United States of America

Rebecca Ibel Gallery is pleased to announce Summertime 99, an exhibition featuring work by a group of artists new to the gallery from New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles, along with new drawings by Bradley Campbell.

Katherine Bradford and Matt Magee are New York based artists represented here with a group of recent paintings. Magees colors and forms dance on the surface in rhythm, exuberating life. While Mageeís abstract paintings are about surface pattern, Bradford fuses an abstract language with representational images. Her rich paintings recall the tradition of Sean Scully, yet with the elements attached, a tee-shirt or ship, Bradford familiarizes these rich pictures suggesting a narrative.

From Los Angeles, artists Charles LaBelle and Robert Miller participate with recent photographs and an installation/perfromance. Composing hundreds of small photographs into a grid, LaBelleís individual pieces focus on a particular hotel or motel, capturing the feel of the environment through the tiny details. Millerís cafe installation is part of his Every Dish Made With Tender Loving Care series featuring recipes blending murder with pleasure in a cozy, familiar setting.

Timothy Buckwalter and Maria Lydia Marcotulli join us from the Bay Area. Buckwalters small paintings cast cartoon figures in empty, abstract spaces, representing emotions from anxiety, idiocy to joy and fear. Marcotullis paintings are autobiographic collages, using a cartoon super-heroine with a computer-tech language. Bradley Campbells works on paper are from a new series entitled Veils. Continuing in a tradition of minimal abstraction, Campbell creates an emotional landscape with color and form. Here, the artists dual forms float across the plane, evoking a magnetic tension, at once attracting, passing and repelling.

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