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Gallery Review: The Lost Syllabary: New Works on Paper by Vítor Mejuto and Sue Havens: Recent Work at Schema Projects
by Etty Yaniv
Despite the endless rain, flowing puddles and gusty wind, viewers flocked to Vitor Mejuto and Sue Havens opening at Schema Projects last Friday. The gridded works on paper by Spanish painter Mejuto evoke a vivid color coded system related to language. While visibly hand-made with graphite lines and color pencil or tempera, Mejuto’s reductive, precise and bold forms represent "syllabary," a set of written characters for a language, in which each character represents a syllable. With a practiced eye for graphic design, Mejuto harnesses aspects of type forms and sound-images, of both written and spoken language, to paper, line and paint. Drawing upon the historical trajectory of geometric abstraction, developed in artistic movements like Russian Constructivism, Suprematism, Bauhaus, De Stijl, and Minimalism, Mejuto’s strong geometric shapes interact with each other and accumulate into a direct yet playful visual system, which echoes a language with no function other than its very own existence.
Work by Vítor Mejuto
Born in Barcelona and educated at Facultad de Bellas Artes de Salamanca, Mejuto works and lives in Galicia, Spain. In addition to his artistic practice, he works as Chief Photographer for the newspaper La Voz de Galicia. This is his first solo exhibition in the the United States.
Work by Vítor Mejuto
Sue Havens' large and small scale watercolors, drawings and three dimensional collages of painted paper fuse painting and sculpture into a seamless surface. Emulating the rippling surfaces of fabric or bark, her two dimensional works involve the dense interlocking of abstract figures, while the wall-mounted three-dimensional paper constructions layer similar planes of busy but muted textures and are given a vibrant tension by the use of careful spots of bright color. Havens reinvigorates traditions of early abstraction as explored by Leger, DuBuffet, Art Brut and the constructed collages of Dada and Cubist artists adding a "do it yourself" twist.
Work by Sue Havens
Havens attended Cooper Union and the MFA program at Bard College, and lives and works in Queens, New York. Having shown extensively in the New York area, her honors and awards include a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in painting and selection for the Artist Registry at White Columns and The Drawing Center.
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Schema Projects: 92 St Nicholas Ave between Hart and Suydam, Brooklyn NY 11237, open through July 7
