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HOWARD FONDA
March 21, 2008
Press Release
March 21, 2008
Press Release
MAIN GALLERY: HOWARD FONDA
You Go Your Way & I’ll Go Mine
June 12, 2008 – July 19, 2008
Light & Sie is proud to present the first solo exhibition in Dallas by Chicago-based painter, Howard Fonda. Unlike many other artists working today, Howard is unabashedly devoted to painting and refuses to accept the contemporary notion that “painting is dead.” Working in one sitting, while the canvas is still wet, a technique referred to as alla prima, this process allows for one layer of paint without any under paintings. The result is incandescent colors, decisively visible brush strokes and any mistake is either incorporated into the composition or the painting is destroyed.
For “You Go Your Way & I’ll Go Mine,” Howard will present a series of new paintings that reflect his ongoing concerns with form versus content, depth versus flatness and representation versus abstraction. These largish, brightly colored works in warm tones walk the line deftly between realism and not – images that could be the richest of Native American rugs or meticulous geometric abstractions meet portraits of poets and philosophers rendered in pseudo-classical compositions. For good measure, there is always a self-portrait or two to demonstrate Fonda’s sincerity and his ongoing search for meaning and truth in painting as well as in life.
Howard Fonda received his MFA in Painting and Drawing from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago in 2001. His work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, among others.
Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 12 PM until 5 PM. For more information, and/or a press kit, please contact Andrew Sie or Scott Hilton at (214) 745-2255
You Go Your Way & I’ll Go Mine
June 12, 2008 – July 19, 2008
Light & Sie is proud to present the first solo exhibition in Dallas by Chicago-based painter, Howard Fonda. Unlike many other artists working today, Howard is unabashedly devoted to painting and refuses to accept the contemporary notion that “painting is dead.” Working in one sitting, while the canvas is still wet, a technique referred to as alla prima, this process allows for one layer of paint without any under paintings. The result is incandescent colors, decisively visible brush strokes and any mistake is either incorporated into the composition or the painting is destroyed.
For “You Go Your Way & I’ll Go Mine,” Howard will present a series of new paintings that reflect his ongoing concerns with form versus content, depth versus flatness and representation versus abstraction. These largish, brightly colored works in warm tones walk the line deftly between realism and not – images that could be the richest of Native American rugs or meticulous geometric abstractions meet portraits of poets and philosophers rendered in pseudo-classical compositions. For good measure, there is always a self-portrait or two to demonstrate Fonda’s sincerity and his ongoing search for meaning and truth in painting as well as in life.
Howard Fonda received his MFA in Painting and Drawing from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago in 2001. His work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, among others.
Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 12 PM until 5 PM. For more information, and/or a press kit, please contact Andrew Sie or Scott Hilton at (214) 745-2255
