PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE Through; March 20, 2010
Start Date; February 18, 2010
February 18 – March 20, 2010
Opening Reception; Thursday February 18, 7:00
p.m. – 9;00 p.m.
Contact; Marcia Wood 404-827-0030 marciawood@marciawoodgallery.com
Marcia Wood Gallery, 263 Walker St SW, Atlanta, GA 30313
Gallery Hours: Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday 11a.m. – 6 p.m.,
Wednesday, Friday 1a.m. – 6 p.m., Sunday, Monday by appointment.
Free and open to the public.
SOLO EXHIBITION AT MARCIA WOOD GALLERY;
William Steiger; Whirl
Marcia Wood Gallery is pleased to host William Steiger in his
fourth solo exhibition with Marcia Wood Gallery in ten years. Steiger's
signature oil on canvas paintings of the American landscape and
it's familiar icons such as ferris wheels, grain elevators and
trains, are minimalist meditations on line and negative space. The
upcoming body of work Steiger has entitled "Whirl" as
representative of the dual ideas of something revolving or rotating
and of the exploratory freedom of 'giving something a try'.
Steiger begins with the familiar: icons of the American landscape
including grain elevators, tramways, trains, machines, roller coasters
and Ferris wheels. The recognizable subject matter is then transformed,
often more by what is omitted than by what is left in. Imagery
becomes abstract and reductive yet the seemingly simpler compositions
ultimately communicate more through their sparing directness. Limitless
space implies endless narrative wherein forms rise from, and meld
into, the landscape.
A graduate of Yale University (1989), William Steiger's work is
in the collections of museums and private collections including
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of Art, the
Museum of Modern Art, Pfizer Corporation, Bank of America, Microsoft
Corporation and others. Steiger exhibits internationally and is
the recipient of numerous awards and grants, and has a bibliography
of over fifty articles and essays since 1990. Steiger was given
a solo exhibition at the Queens Museum of Art in 2002, and has
been producing print series with the prestigious Pace Prints, NY,
since 2002.
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