Pink Oil by Alex Bartenberger - Courtesy Thunder-Sky, Inc.
This Friday, Thunder-Sky Inc. opens Infrastructure,
an exhibition of works that investigate abstraction as one of the fundamental
building blocks of visual art. Featuring four local artists, this show starts
off the New Year with the proverbial "bang." Alex Bartenberger’s
large “Pink Oil” is a soothing meditation on form and simplicity; while Bromwell’s
gallery director Evan Hildebrandt’s luxurious “Side View” places a premium on
agitated surface and sundry textures. Painter Chad Rasmussem employs dazzling
accretions of acrylic paint in his three offerings, and Thunder-Sky
artist-in-residence Michael Weber uses a variety of media to create
slick-surfaced abstractions. “Swishing” is a celebration of lively, almost
iridescent, color and “Looking at Flowers” scrapped and scoured surface
bristles with intensity and delight.
