Refract Mere

MARQUEE PROJECTS is pleased to present Refract Mere, a group exhibition of paintings and sculptures by Jeff Feld, Dana James, and Larry Wolhandler.

Due to current circumstances and concerns about social distancing, we will not be hosting an opening reception for this exhibition. We will receive visitors by appointment only. While we are temporarily closed, we invite you to visit and explore our exhibition online. Marquee Projects’ website and Artsy site will post installation and individual photos of the work and you can contact us for all inquiries. Please also visit us on our social media platforms on Facebook and Instagram.

As an added feature, we will be periodically changing our front window display, rotating various pieces from the show for public viewing throughout the duration of the exhibit. Please stop by at your leisure.

“Refract Mere” seemed like the right choice for the title of this show: abstract, yet when “looked at” long enough, slowly self-revealing – just like the artworks in the exhibition. “Refract” implies the light-shifting, wave-bending, direction-changing dimensional planes suggested in the paintings and sculptures. “Mere” hints at the subtlety, reduced compositional elements, and quality of barely-holding-together shared by all the pieces. Jeff Feld assembles intimate collages and delicate airy sculptures that play with ripples and repetition, Dana James configures assembled canvases that contrast materials and spontaneous color explosions, and Larry Wolhandler deconstructs elements that revel in the juxtaposition of gloppy enamels, refined colored sprays, penned-line boundaries, and attempted (but failed) erasures.

Jeff Feld: Confronting ordinary circumstances, my work arises from simultaneous acts of creation and destruction: existing forms are called into doubt, divided against themselves, deliberated upon and constructed anew. My drawings and objects, like life, are messy and resolved under some duress. Through them I attend to the converging conditions of art and life, invention and appropriation, abstraction and representation.  My work is ingrained with the vicissitudes of the day-to-day.

Dana James: My paintings act as panorama of linear time; they serve as a reminder that we are small and predictable creatures, incessantly creating and shedding beautiful accounts of the earth and its elements. Upon completion, they are visual diaries that speak to contradiction, a latency caromed by intermittent activity.

Larry Wolhandler: My process is not very linear except for the part where I get up in the morning, drink coffee, and go to my studio. The painting is done in small increments and random bursts. Meanwhile there’s also continuous editing, deconstructing the process of composition. I choose my colors from the “remainders aisle” in the paint section at Home Depot. It’s like foraging.