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01-11-2008, 09:40 AM
Albuquerque, NM-Artspace 116 announces Both Ways, an exhibit of paintings by Allan Rosenfield. Painted on both sides of large sheets of untreated and unstretched canvas, the pieces are freehanging and loosely draped over rods in a manner that resembles kimonos or robes.
His paintings are washes of color, sometimes with wide stripes on one side and looser brush strokes or drips on the other. The acrylic and mixed media pigment often bleeds from one side of the canvas to another. The pieces may be draped in reverse to take on a different character,
116 Central Avenue·Suite 201
Albuquerque, NM 87102
www.artspace116.org
505·245·4200
Mon-Fri 9–5
Exhibitions offered as a community service by the Wingspread Collector’s Guide allowing the viewer to imagine the pieces “Both Ways”. About his work, Rosenfield says: “The format suggests a breathing, organic being with its own envelope of space. It can be completely closed, open all of the way, or completely reversed
and repositioned. Just because I painted the canvas doesn’t mean that I know every possibility that it contains.”
Rosenfield studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Philadelphia College of Art, and Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts. He received a Fulbright fellowship in the 1980s to study at the Osaka University of the Arts in Japan. He also received a Pollack-Krasner Foundation grant in 1987. His work has been shown in Japan and across the United States. He now lives in
Albuquerque.
His paintings are washes of color, sometimes with wide stripes on one side and looser brush strokes or drips on the other. The acrylic and mixed media pigment often bleeds from one side of the canvas to another. The pieces may be draped in reverse to take on a different character,
116 Central Avenue·Suite 201
Albuquerque, NM 87102
www.artspace116.org
505·245·4200
Mon-Fri 9–5
Exhibitions offered as a community service by the Wingspread Collector’s Guide allowing the viewer to imagine the pieces “Both Ways”. About his work, Rosenfield says: “The format suggests a breathing, organic being with its own envelope of space. It can be completely closed, open all of the way, or completely reversed
and repositioned. Just because I painted the canvas doesn’t mean that I know every possibility that it contains.”
Rosenfield studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Philadelphia College of Art, and Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts. He received a Fulbright fellowship in the 1980s to study at the Osaka University of the Arts in Japan. He also received a Pollack-Krasner Foundation grant in 1987. His work has been shown in Japan and across the United States. He now lives in
Albuquerque.