June 2024

A Spring Exhibition Part 2:
Color Abstraction Show Opens in Boston
Philip Gerstein

Just in time this early April, several NY and Boston artists have come together to hurry the slow progression of New England Spring -- with their own steeped in color contribution. I've had the pleasure & the privilege of curating this large group exhibition, alighting at the Brickbottom Gallery (Somerville MA), to span all of April. This show, titled:

"THE SHAPE OF COLOR - 5 ABSTRACT ARTISTS"

features two Boston and three New York artists, and through contrast and comparison, a range of post-Minimal Color Abstraction.

The exhibition has already attracted praise and close viewing from the local press. Their review, in the April 7 issue of Cambridge Day starts with this:

"On view at Somerville’s Brickbottom Gallery through April 28, “The Shape of Color – 5 Abstract Artists” has a deceptively simple concept with mesmerizing and complex execution. The term “love letter” gets thrown around left and right in arts criticism, but it’d be reductive to call this exhibition a love letter to color."

(See it in full here.)

I am thus delighted to share with our readers some of the installation images and snapshots from our Vernissage.

  

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Installation view: Gerstein "Sometimes There Is Bliss", 24 x 48 in. (61 x 122 cm),
Acrylic, glass beads, glitter, & mixed media on birchwood panel, 2016

 

Brickbottom Weider+Yudelman Apr24

   Installation view \2\:  Weider  Rock Around the Clock  16 x 20 in.
  (41 x 51 cm.),  Gouache, acrylic & graphite on linen,  2020 ; and
  Yudelman  Mid-month (Wyoming);  20 x 16 in. (51 x 41 cm.), 
  Archival pigment print

 

Brickbottom Biliana+Jeannie+JimBanks Apr24

  Vernissage: at the exhibition entrance

 

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 Installation view \3\:  Gerstein    Bonjour Monsieur Gauguin ,  12 x 24 in.
  (31 x 61 cm),  Acrylic & glass beads on birchwood panel, 2019; and
  Yudelman Unbound 32;  33 x 26 in. (84 x 66 cm),  Archival pigment print

 

Brickbottom-5 Apr24

 Vernissage \2\

 

Brickbottom 8 4-2024

 Installation view \4\:  Gerstein After the Humans,  30 x 20 in. (76 x 51 cm),  Acrylic
  & mixed media on birchwood panel, 2016;  Fearey  Heating with Wood,
  12 x 16 in. (31 x 41 cm),  2020;   Gerstein   Evening with the Boys,
  36 x 36 in. (91 x 91 cm),  Oil stick, acrylic, pigment, and mixed
 textural media on birchwood panel,  2018 ; and  Lyshak  Grey Turbulence,
  24 x 24 in. (61 x 61 cm),  Oil on linen, 2019.

Brickbottom Biliana+Vanessa Apr24

Vernissage \3\

  Brickbottom Yudelman+Lyshak grey Apr24

 Installation view \4\:   Yudelman Unbound 28,  25 x 20 in. (64 x 51 cm) ,
  Archival pigment print;  and  Lyshak  Water Soothes Rock,
  24 x 36 in. (61 x 91 cm),  Oil on Linen,  2023.

 

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 Installation view \5\ 

 

Brickbottom-3 Apr24

 Vernissage \4\

 

Brickbottom Yudelman+Lyshak Apr24

  Installation view \6\:   Yudelman  One Day (Maine) ; 22 x 22 in. (56 x 56 cm),
  Archival pigment print;   and   Lyshak RBG (In honor of Ruth Bader Ginsberg),
  24 x 40 in. (61 x 102), Oil on linen,  2020

 

Brickbottom Francie+Genevieve Apr24

 Vernissage \5\:  Francie Lyshak (l) with her painting "RBG" (in red)

 

Brickbottom 3 4-2024

Installation view \7\

 

Brickbottom 6 4-2024

  Installation view \8\:  Weider L’Objet d’Art ; 16 x 20 in. (41 x 51 cm),
  Gouache, acrylic & graphite on linen, 2019 ;  Gerstein  In Clarity,
  24 x 24 in. (61 x 61 cm),  Acrylic, oil stick, lacquer, & textural media
  on birchwood panel ; 2022 ;   and   Yudelman Winter (Maine),
  16 x 16 in. (41 x 41 cm),  Archival pigment print

 

Brickbottom PG+2 Feareys Apr24

  Installation view \9\:  Fearey Path,  18 x 24 in. (46 x 61 cm)  Watercolor
  on paper, 2021;  Gerstein  Annunciation,  24 x 20 in. (61 x 51 cm),
  Flashe and acrylic on birchwood panel,  2022;  and  Fearey Permanent,
  8 x 8 in. (21 x 21 cm)  Watercolor on paper,  2022

 

Brickbottom-4 Apr24

 Vernissage \6\

 

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Vernissage \7\:  We are in full color and officially open!

 

 (See Part 1 in Scene4 April 2024 issue)

 

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Born and raised in Moscow, Russia, Philip Gerstein began exhibiting his work in the 1980's, while pursuing a PhD in Art History at Harvard University. He studied painting at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Japanese calligraphy with Toshu Ogawa. Gerstein exhibits in NYC, Provincetown MA, and extensively in the Boston area, as well as organizing and curating painting and photography shows. For his paintings – extensively reviewed and widely collected see www.PhilipGerstein.com. For his other work in Scene4, check the Archives

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