JEFFREY SCHRIER, EXHIBITION
Peekskill, NY: November, 2010 - March, 2011
Jeffrey Schrier’s seven foot high paintings are infused with luminous impressions of Hudson River environs and are intended to imply Creation stories across a cultural spectrum: light emerging out of darkness, form out of chaos; the sprouting of life.
Acrylic, river clay, rain & aerosol on flood stained archival paper, occasional leaf fragments, bird droppings, slug trail slime. 50 1/8” X 7’
Video by Nick Cannell
Between 2006-2010 Schrier created these works in response to extremist / fundamentalist pronouncements that the natural disasters of our past decade were divine retaliation. Schrier worked outdoors in storms on flood stained expanses of archival paper to directly involve natural forces in his process of creation.
Wave Windlash
The works are enhanced and damaged by wind, rain and hail. Rips and tears along the edges or corners are sometimes gilded or embellished, based on kinstugi, the Japanese tradition of fusing cracked ceramics with a gold vein, thus transforming damage to treasure.
Hidden Light: Ohr Ha-Ganuz Laceration
The works reflect tensions between dynamic environmental states of being, human interpretations of cataclysmic natural events, and the artist’s internal experience at the time each work was executed.
Water / Fire / Water Flow
Adamah Cirrus / Cumulus
Throughout the series, the vast range of application of paint expresses the visceral involvement of the artist with his world.
Charquoise Drixplosion
Wilfredo Morel’s Steel Imaginations is the generous host of WrecKtify @H-Art. Hudson River HealthCare Inc, an exhibition sponsor, is a network of community health centers providing health care throughout the Hudson Valley and Eastern Long Island's farm-dense communities, regardless of ability to pay or insurance status. HRHCare will receive a portion of exhibition sales.
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