Solo
exhibition: The Number Escapes Me, Marcia Wood Gallery,
March 25 - April 24, 2010. installation images
Solo exhibition, Never. Ever., Marcia Wood Gallery, January -
March, 2008. installation
images
Robert
Sagerman returns to Marcia Wood Gallery with his greatly anticipated
fourth exhibition, “The Number Escapes Me”. Continuing
his use of color and surface richness in materially dense color
field paintings to elucidate the philosophy underlying the work,
the artist introduces new techniques towards advancing the essential
meaning of the paintings.
Robert Sagerman received his MFA in Painting and MA in Art History
from the Pratt Institute in 1998, his MA in Religious Studies in
2000 from New York University and his PhD in Hebrew and Judaic
Studies from New York University in 2008. Sagerman has exhibited
in museums, galleries and art fairs in Tokyo, Shanghai, Singapore,
Chicago, Cleveland, New York, San Francisco and Germany and London.
This is his fourth exhibition at Marcia Wood Gallery.
Sagerman continues his focus on the sensuality of color and surface
as a paradoxical indication to the paintings’ true identity
as a metaphor for the underlying immaterial dimension to perceived
reality. The exhibition introduces several new developments within
the work. Color gradations in some of the paintings suggest a veiling
effect that advances the metaphor of nothingness revealed by materiality.
Another new approach towards evoking the metaphor for the sublimity
of the transcendent is the artist’s decision to maintain spaces
between the accumulated marks of paint. As the viewer is able to
see through each layer of paint to the original background color
the gaps in the material are suggestive of the notion of nothingness
and thus insubstantiality. |
