CB1 Gallery
207 W 5th St
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Daniel Aksten at CB1 Gallery
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Opens Sunday Sep 12, 2010 (5–7pm)
Sep 9, 2010 – Oct 10, 2010
Wednesdays–Sundays
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“Daniel Aksten's images, despite their intense visual crispness, blur the lines between several kinds of modern and contemporary painting conventions. He uses a super-flat enamel-based automotive-finish paint, building topographic surfaces through layering rather than impasto. The engaging, almost candy-flavored quality of the paintings draws the eye, yet their shifting, de-centered structures keep the eye in relentless motion. His sleek and seductive palette is neither organic nor wholly artificial; and his grid systems are reminiscent of both Mondrian's geometric exuberance and the abstracting effects of digital pixelation, without reference to any representational or narrative inspiration. In fact, Aksten literally rolls the dice to engineer his compositions, further and most finally seeming to remove the hand of the artist from these most lovingly crafted and labor-intensive of artworks.”
Shana Nys Dambrot, Flavorpill
CB1 Gallery, is pleased to present Material, a solo show of the work of Los Angeles artist, Daniel Aksten. Material continues the artist's ongoing series of highly finished grid paintings while adding an additional body of work focusing on vertical stripes. The exhibition will open on September 9 for the downtown LA Art Walk. Scrutinizing optics and the painting itself, under Southern California's patented sunshine, Daniel Aksten forges mathematical structure, chance, and an astonishing degree of craft to produce paintings that challenge the viewer to re-examine how much one thinks they can actually see.
—CB1 Gallery
