WHERE: DEEP SPACE GALLERY, 77 Cornelison Ave., Jersey City
Please join us this THURSDAY NIGHT, February 13th, from 6-11pm, for the Opening Reception of CIRCLE THE SQUARE, featuring an incredible collection of works by contemporary abstract artists pushing the genre in new directions, each from their own angle.
CIRCLE THE SQUARE includes new works by George Goodridge, Debra Lynn Manville, Orlando Reyes, and Kati Vilim. All four artists will be on the premises—come meet them and ask them about their process!
GEORGE GOODRIDGE:
“Throughout my career, I have always tried to produce works that are surprising, original and playful which rely on invention rather than appropriation. Exploring varied concepts through the creation of new forms, these works may question themes regarding diversity, visual kinetics, identity, object pairings or more narrative ideas pertaining to the concrete world. To ensure invention I rely on the unconscious mind and a form of Cage’s Chance Operations, which has much to offer. This practice is not reliant on our learned awareness nor what we believe to be correct through history. To begin production, after a concept has been decided, I perform a type of meditation that clears my mind of my preconceived notions of geometry. I then create viscerally from a first notion in search for unrealized forms or uncommon pairings that could possibly imitate life in its irregularity. I refer to this process as Unconscious Geometry.”
George is a graduate of the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan where he taught Visual Techniques. He also attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and was awarded the position of Senior Technical Adviser to the Student Body.
Best known for his three-dimensional stretched canvas works, he has relocated several times between New York, Los Angeles and Miami. George has been awarded both the Art Center South Florida’s Studio Program and Print Lab Residencies as well as the Eileen S. Kaminski Family Foundation Residency at Mana Contemporary in Jersey City, NJ. His work has been represented in the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum, the NSU Art Museum, the Boca Raton Museum of Art, the South Korean Embassy in Washington DC, as well as numerous commercial galleries, Scope, Pulse and other satellite Art Fairs. Multiple purchases and commissions have been produced for United Airlines, The Related Group, Banyan Capital and Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines. Notable press includes Land Escape Art Review, White Hot Magazine of Contemporary Art, the Examiner, the Miami Herald and Art South Florida with artist talks on PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) and the Syndicated News Network. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
DEBRA LYNN MANVILLE:
“I am a self-taught painter, although I have taken many art classes and received training in interior design. Bright colors and abstracted forms are the mainstay of my work. I have followed graffiti as an art genre since I was young since the letters were always so difficult to read that they become forms in and of themselves that take on new symbolic and communicative meaning. My own artistic language has evolved over the years to become increasingly nonobjective. Color and shapes communicate a language that becomes more complex as they interact with one another in a single piece. I use the term “silent” to express art that really catches my eye -- work where the juxtaposition of forms and angles “quiet” the periphery in a distinctly commanding way. “Silent” works are the type of art that I love to see, share, and produce.”
Debra is the sole founder and manager of the extraordinarily popular instagram profile @1MillionDiamonds, which features abstract and nonobjective artwork from artists around the world. She was the Red Bull Arts Resident in Detroit in 2018. She currently lives and works in Central NJ.
