repetition repetition

June 4 – 28

Thursday – Sunday, 12 – 6PM
(June 4th and 5th, 11AM – 8PM)

Palimpsest or alla prima, painting must and mustn’t repeat itself. Descriptive or declarative, the performance is always recommencing (…again, better…). Unique or multiple, it must have life of its own.

Bram van Velde (1895 – 1981) was a Dutch born artist based largely in Paris. Alongside oil painting, his signature media became gouache and lithography. Beckett wrote of his work as existential impasse. There were lifetime retrospectives internationally, and a definitive Centre Pompidou survey in 1989.

Patricia Treib (1979, Saginaw, Mi) lives and works in Brooklyn. Drawing on a reservoir of gathered ‘sources’ (photographs, works of art), she generates a lexicon of recursive shape-gestures at once abstract and representational. Recent solo exhibitions have been at ARCH, Athens, and Nordenhake, Berlin.

Huge thanks:
Tristan Cormier, Paris. 
Kate MacGarry, London.
Rhett Leinster, Glasgow.