susan rabinowitz   positive landscape 11 january - 11 february, 2002 opening friday, 11 january, 7-9p gallery 2               untitled landscape #6, 2001 oil on canvas 30 x 138 inches $8,500               untitled landscape #9, 2001 oil on canvas 30 x 138 inches               untitled landscape #10, 2001 oil on canvas 30 x 138 inches               positive landscape #9, 2001 oil on canvas 8 1/8 x 12 inches sold           press release   Pierogi is extremely pleased to present new paintings by Susan Rabinowitz. Sarah Schmerler writes that Susan Rabinowitz's paintings imply vast expanses of open sky, yet they have humble origins on the floor of the artist's studio, where they are born in a puddle of paint. Rabinowitz stopped using a brush in 1996 after experimenting with watercolor pours on paper. After pouring paint onto a stretched canvas placed on the floor, she tilts the canvas to move the paint horizontally across the surface. Gravity, chance and as she refers to them, controlled "accidents," combine to effect horizon lines. This exhibition will include both large and small scale works. The large paintings are long rectangles, averaging ten feet long by 2 feet high. This format allows Rabinowitz to fully develop the horizon line. The small paintings average 9 x 12 inches. The larger works have dark masses of land, most often deep green, that seem to begin at one end of the canvas and rush off to the other. They have a sense of history, of process, that is easily detected. You can find in them traces of the pours—a ghostly ridge of varnish, for instance, that overlaps where sky meets land. If the small works are moments, the larger works are moments on top of moments... (Schmerler)
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