BRIAN GUIDRY

JONATHAN FERRARA GALLERY is proud to announce Invisible Ping, new paintings and collage by artist BRIAN GUIDRY. The exhibition will be on view in the main gallery from 1 through 31 October 2015 with an opening reception on Saturday, 3 October from 6-9pm. For his debut solo exhibition at the gallery, Guidry unveils a suite of work three years in the making. Seemingly digitally produced with their stark lines and pulsating hues, his paintings portray an abstracted view of nature. Guidry creates a duality in the exhibition with the inclusion of his representational collages. The still life imagery in these works tussle with the graphic cut-lines of the artist’s hand, echoing the lines in the paintings. The collages offer a reference point for the paintings; working in tandem to share a view and experience of the unseen, an Invisible Ping.

Guidry says of his work . . .

The invisible world around us is not what it seems. Surreal and sometimes bordering on science fiction, my work seeks to illuminate this invisible landscape of energy pathways.  I see these conduits as they relate to modes of communication, transportation, locomotion and concrete spaces. I have always had a tendency to create artwork that is in some sense a recording of these imperceptible subjects, whether physical or conceptual.

Many of my works begin as an idea —a kernel of information, a flaw or imperfection that precipitates growth. I usually work on several bodies of work concurrently, each emerging with its own media and process.

In my paintings I use a very specific color palette sampled from a wide variety of natural sources in the landscape/environment and from flora in particular: reflections from water, festering storm clouds, fronds, sugar cane, exhausted foliage, flowers, lichens, soil... The colors, which I rigorously match, are blended on-site (plein-air). The samples are then taken into the studio where I mix larger quantities of these matched colors. I use these colors as my primary palette and have a collected hundreds of samples. By injecting these "natural" colors into the geometric planes and constructions, the created shapes and voids suggest portals and slips in time and space where the viewer is lead over the precipice of the normal, into the magical realism of the uncanny, peculiar and quantum.