Brendan Getz: when the after-image is the image
January 15 - March 16, 2022
Through a thoughtfully considered painting practice, Brendan Getz unpacks the rich complexity, depth and nuance of strikingly simple forms and images with an attitude and atmosphere that opens them far beyond their initial approach. For this exhibition, the artist has chosen the title: when the after-image is the image, a nod to the responsive effect produced in the mind’s eye after seeing a vivid image, but also in reference to how a memory of the past can shape the present. Including over 70 paintings and 7 studio objects, this expansive exhibition is installed specifically on site, in the gallery’s discrete rooms and spaces that point intimately to one another. Produced over the past decade, this work includes movements into the pandemic, and its effects of review, reconsideration and change in a multitude of public and private dimensions.
Recalling the artist’s own live-work space, the paintings often depict moments of the domestic and routine in a working studio that doubles as a living room. As the gallery itself is also a former and future domestic space, this doubling of a live-work relationship becomes active throughout the entirety of the exhibition, in exciting and often surprising ways, where the public and the private meet in a discursive encounter. Among the objects installed are the artist’s own studio chairs, a floor mat and a mahl stick, as paint laden peripheral objects presented for review.
As the philosopher Paul Ricoeur puts it, “…how can we help but leap to the plane of collective memory and evoke the sort of hauntedness, described by historians of the present day, which stigmatizes this ‘past that does not pass’?” For Getz, this involves the doubling of familiar perceptual habit as it meets with collective memory– an uncanny source of renewal that renders the conventional strange, and leads to an expanded and hopeful sense of possibility for the future.
In a recent review of the artists work, Susan J. Musich writes: In the tradition of Luc Tuymans and Giorgio Morandi, Getz depicts fetishized, dreamlike domestic objects such as an ice tray, bookends, a toaster, and a drinking glass. He poetically writes, “A cared for object – caring world. A disposable object – disposable world.” Using a minimal palette, subtle color contrasts, shadows, and distinct brush strokes, Getz’s attention to detail demonstrates a caring for his subjects that elevates them above “usual object” status. These lyrical and elegant paintings provide a sense of serenity in these turbulent times.
[IMAGE]: Brendan Getz, containers, 2021. Oil on wood, 24 x 20 inches.
Artwork
supports (studio window)
2021
Oil on wood
8 x 10 inches
supports
2019
Oil on canvas
20 x 16 inches
utility light (motion sensing)
2021
Oil on canvas
36 x 60 inches
studio wall and room on the other side (end of the day)
2021
Oil on wood
10 x 8 inches
open window, outside
2021
Oil on canvas
50 x 38 inches
a mirror in the room and an open window
2021
Oil on canvas
60 x 36 inches
box fan (for open windows and ventilation)
2019
Oil on canvas
48 x 36 inches
both/and
2020
Oil on wood, masking tape, pushpin
24 x 11 inches
still can see
2020
Oil on canvas
16 x 12 inches
water tower
2019
Oil on canvas
20 x 16 inches
gleam plane (coffee painting)
2021
Oil on wood
10 x 8 inches
gleam plane, watering can
2021
Oil on wood
10 x 8 inches
glint plane and another
2021
Oil on wood
24 x 20 inches
residual fleck (ice tray)
2020
Oil on wood
20 x 16 inches
counter object (plate)
2020
Oil on wood
20 x 16 inches
yesterday and today
2020
Oil on wood
14 x 11 inches
container (glass)
2020
Oil on wood
14 x 11 inches
lee shore (bookends)
2021
Oil on wood
20 X 16 inches
Container (gesso, ground)
2020
Oil on canvas
20 x 16 inches
containers
2021
Oil on wood
24 x 20 inches
double contact (building)
2021
Oil on wood
30 x 22 inches
Sold
evening and outside (surface company and tones between)
2021
Oil on wood
30 x 22 inches
Sold
aspects, views, access and translation– points of contact between become their own objects too
2021
Oil on wood
14 x 11 inches
double (surface lean / contact between)
2021
Oil on wood
20 x 16 inches
like a cloud and still on the concrete
2021
Oil on wood
10 x 8 inches
brim, ear, from my dad
2021
Oil on wood
24 x 20 inches
pigeon painting (from the parking lot)
2019
Oil on canvas
30 x 24 inches
my dad's birds (red, blue, green)
2019
Oil on canvas
30 x 24 inches
my dad's birds (red, blue)
2019
Oil on canvas
20 x 16 inches
my dad's birds (dark)
2019
Oil on canvas
24 x 20 inches
my dad's birds
2019
Oil on canvas
48 x 36 inches
train view for two way mirrors
2019
Oil on canvas
20 x 16 inches
train view for two way mirrors, long recall
2019
Oil on canvas
20 x 16 inches
train view (color, constant, recall)
2019
Oil on wood
10 x 8 inches
train view, house painting (blush)
2019
Oil on canvas
48 x 36
train view, house painting (tree)
2019
Oil on canvas
48 x 36 inches
sometimes still there
2021
Oil on canvas
20 X 16 inches
night light
2022
Oil on wood
20 x 16 inches
when the after-image is the image (800 heinz)
2020
Oil on cardboard, wood shelf
12 x 13 x 1 inches
windshield painting (glass plane)
2021
Oil on wood
20 x 16 inches
red windshield
2020
Oil on wood
10 x 8 inches
gleam plane (east bay)
2021
Oil on wood
11 x 14 inches
side mirror (wait)
2021
Oil on canvas
14 x 11 inches
plane view
2020
Oil on cardboard, wood shelf
12 x 13 x 1 inches
summer snow (tetons)
2020
Oil on wood
20 x 16 inches
in and around all the words (tetons)
2020
Oil on canvas
20 x 16 inches
valley wall, between the trees and a binocular view
2021
Oil on wood
30 x 20 inches
near and far at the same time, snow stays in all the seasons
2020
Oil on canvas
36 x 24 inches
plane, side view
2019
Oil on canvas
16 x 20 inches
after-image stays (rose)
2020
Oil on wood
14 x 11 inches
Sold
windshield painting (glass plane)
2021
Oil on wood
20 x 16 inches
painted building bolt and a barycentric view
2021
Oil on canvas
(2) 14 x 11 inches
screen view (still here)
2020
Oil on wood
16 x 20 inches
on a walk and trees overhead
2021
Oil on wood
16 x 12 inches
find one another in a found world
2021
Oil on wood
16 x 12 inches
when the after-image is the image (I'll be seeing you)
2020
Oil on canvas
14 x 11 inches
when the after-image is the image (building sun)
2021
Oil on canvas
14 x 11 inches
when the after-image is the image (structuring forgetfulness)
2019
Oil on canvas
14 x 11 inches
between what is, ought and could be (image-object)
2021
Oil on canvas
14 x 11 inches
when the after-image is the image (implied sun / also the sun)
2021
Oil on canvas
14 x 11 inches
blue sun, peripheral vision
2021
Oil on canvas
14 x 11 inches
being (in time) is also being alongside
2021
Oil on canvas
10 x 8 inches
when the after-image is the image
2020
Oil on wood
11 x 14 inches
gleam plane and peripheral vision
2021
Oil on canvas
20 x 16 inches
container (magnetic, for sewing)
2021
Oil on wood
20 x 16 inches
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