David Malek
@ GOLDEN
3319 N Broadway St, Chicago, IL 60657
Opening Thursday, March 17th, from 6PM - 9PM
On view through Saturday, May 7th
This exhibition consists of four large rectangular enamel paintings on panel. The paintings depict unique grid structures taken from a variety of diagrammatic sources and explore the visuality and spatiality of grids. Both pragmatic and pictured, Malek‘s paintings present the grids inconsiderate to their support, as if the paintings are selections from a graphed environment incorporating the viewer. The multiple layers of enamel paint that build upon each subsequent image present a remarkably luminous display.
Experienced as both optical and material, Malek’s paintings oscillate between the spatiality of science fiction and the defining methods of rule-based North American conceptualists. Situated firmly in the dialog of contemporary abstraction, geometric intentions and human execution provide a plane of particularity between the viewer and object.
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