Alfred Jensen, Physical Optics, 1975, oil on canvas, 3 panels, each 86"
x 51"
Though they diverge in style, the expressive hermeticism of Forrest Bess's "ideograms", the esoteric complexity of Paul Laffoley's diagrams, and the reserved pop of Tatsuya MacCoy's paintings commonly contrast systems of signs to subjective feelings.
The paintings in Perfect Being grapple with existential dichotomies - inner/outer, spiritual/material, order/chaos - oscillating between deeply personal world-views and controlled interpretations. From Michael Banicki's systemized charts in which subjective feelings and emotions are presented as empirical results, to Alfred Jensen's geometric abstractions based on scientific and mystical investigations, these artists' highly individuated practices evoke original encounters with the universal.
Accompanied by a 12 page black and white catalog.
