Jeffrey Palladini, Alex Weinstein, Recent Works

“This body of work wrestles with our relationship to time, both in its immutable progression and in its plasticity. Regardless of our endless efforts to thwart it, save it, slow it down, we are helpless in the face of time’s steady march..”

-- Jeffrey Palladini

Jeffrey Palladini is best known for his highly recognizable figurative paintings, echoing widely varied influences from medieval iconography to Japanese woodcut to pop art, all while displaying a strong cinematic quality. Palladini does not offer his viewers a set compositional narrative but a moment frozen in time. He employs vibrant pigments, hand – drawn lines, and a judicious suppression of background detail, further perpetuating the ambiguity and therefore inviting the viewer’s imagination to fill in the blanks.

“My paintings are made slowly with copious layering and consequently have a kind of slow-burn when beheld in person, emoting quietly over time. The visual spaces, color fields and light effects of my paintings are made for slow concentration, welcoming whatever interpretive association the viewer brings to them.”

-- Alex Weinstein

Alex Weinstein continues his preoccupation with depicting the Sublime – following in the steps of artists from Casper David Friedrich to Monet, from Mark Rothko to James Turrell. His color field paintings operate dually as near monochromatic abstractions and sublime renderings of real places. Weinstein paints hazy surfaces and celestial atmospheres filled with ambient lighting that in the words of the artist create “visual resting places” for his viewer’s interpretative associations, to collect inside.