Paris London Hong Kong is pleased to announce New Tenets in Geometric Abstraction, work by Samantha Bittman, Peter Demos, and Russell Tyler curated by Michael Jefferson. This group exhibition will open on Friday, April 25th, from 5 – 8pm at 845 W. Washington Blvd., Chicago, IL.

New Tenets in Geometric Abstraction explores the phenomenon of physical optics in the painted surface as well as the three-dimensional painting as object. Visual effects achieved through the inherent physical properties of the chosen medium and new techniques of paint application combine in the art of Samantha Bittman, Peter Demos and Russell Tyler. Each artist employs a unique exploration of material, color, composition, rhythm, proportion and form to culminate in new, non-objective image making. In addition to formal art historical parallels one can make, each of these artists create a truly new painting that finds influence outside the canon of art and more from the broad world of design.

Peter Demos conceives his work as modular units that exist and respond to the architectural space they occupy. Demos paintings are often reduced the solitary color black. Form within the composition is registered in the eye through rectangular elements painted in contrasting matte or gloss paint. Whereas the paintings of Samantha Bittman references indigenous textiles whose function supersedes its design, creating woven textiles which become an unconventional ground for paintings when stretched. As a result, the painting often conceals much of the textile but in the end, the textile and the painting rely on each other and one could not exist without the other. Russell Tyler borrows color and form from outmoded perceptions of the future as seen in vintage science fiction movie sets then applies richly textured and fully chromatic strokes of paint to canvas which are confined to their compositional elements by precise edges.

Samantha Bittman received her BFA from Rhode Island School of Design, 2004, and her M.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute, 2004. She has had recent exhibitions at the Greenpoint Terminal Gallery in Brooklyn, NY, Between A Place and Candy: Pattern, Repetition, and Motif, Matteawan Gallery (Beacon, NY), and Azettagh, OUTLET (Brooklyn, NY). She currently lives and works in Chicago.

Russell Tyler lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He received his MFA from the Pratt Institute in 2010. Other solo exhibitions include B15 Gallery (Copenhagen), Fouladi Projects (San Francisco), EbersMoore Gallery (Chicago) and Freight + Volume (New York). Group exhibitions include Acid Summer at DCKT Contemporary as well as exhibitions at Denny Gallery (New York), James Graham & Sons (New York) and Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art (San Francisco). TYLER’s work has been featured in publications including Hyperallergic, San Francisco Arts Quarterly and Beautiful Decay.

Peter Demos born in Wheat Ridge Colorado and received his B.F.A. from Kansas City Art Institute, 2004, and M.F.A. from The City University of New York, Hunter College, 2008. Most recent solo exhibitions include Carbon Copy, The Journal Gallery (Brooklyn, NY) and 10 Paintings, David Richard Contemporary, (Santa Fe, NM).

Michael Jefferson received his BFA from the University of Michigan in 1995. Currently the Senior Vice President and Senior Specialist at Wright Auction in Chicago, Michael is widely known for broad expertise in 20th century decorative arts and contemporary fine art.

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