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Garth Weiser 21 Apr - 27 May 2017 (You can smell the art 😉) . . . . . #vsco #vscocam #london #londongallery #gallery #simonleegallery #garthweiser #art (at Simon Lee Gallery)

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Have you ever met Garth Weiser?

Garth Weiser’s paintings are the product of layers, each resulting equally

from chance as they do from a conscious manipulation of time and material.

The works outwardly display a quick, surface effect that belies a slow,

systematic building.

The “interference-pattern” works disguise themselves as monochromes

and forgo the spinal element that characterized previous paintings, instead

favoring an allover composition. Creating an attention that lingers on the

surface, the pattern functions as a barrier, limiting access to the painting’s

layers. Despite maintaining their references to digital distortion and abstract

organic patterns (such as wood grain and aquatic vibration), these works do

not merely create an optical effect. Their muddled and degraded edges work

to give shape to a pulsing, auditory hum. In some cases, the interferencepattern

is interrupted by blistering lacerations that appear at once to be

erupting from the under-painting and attacking the first layers of painting.

Moreover, the new copper works acts in direct and conscious opposition to

the deceptively staid appearance of interference-pattern paintings, with their

molten finish that is almost geologic in its force. Weiser first applies piles

of colored paint in a free form and gestural manner. The copper membrane

then covers and in effect hides the expressionistic under-painting. The works

then become sites of excavation. The artist uses a razor blade to scrape and

gouge their surfaces with an intensity that at times punctures through the

paper itself. The brevity of the physical cut negates however the series of

fluid actions that precedes it. And in their following along the impulsive

and spontaneous gestures, the incisions are rendered topological and graphic

– a slice reveals the heaped residue of a now dissolved process.

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ISSUE 3 PREVIEW: SYSTEMS OF BELIEF

Four artists reflect on the drive to create

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Anoka Faruqee 2012P-38  ::  Garth Weiser Heavy Drinker Chews Tobacco 

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Garth Weiser Heavy Drinker Chews Tobacco, 2011 Oil on canvas

76 x 63 in. 

Garth Weiser Heavy Drinker Chews Tobacco, 2011 Oil on canvas 76 x 63 in. [detail]

Jessica Dickinson, Liam Everett, Alex Olson, Josh Smith, and Garth Weiser 

Installation View