PLATO

Plato is excited to present Pulp Fiction, an exhibition of works on paper by an international group of artists who employ aesthetic tropes, application techniques and compositional devices similar to those used in paintings on canvas.

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Akos Ezer and Erik Nieminen choose acrylic paint to ramp up the intensity of the image, evoke emotion or create flowy movement. Multiple works in the show feature an all-over application of pigment suggesting a deep pictorial space, including watercolors by Alexis Rockman and Adam de Boer. Other pieces forge a mystical realm beyond the paper’s surface, like the pastel by Maude Corriveau, the watercolors by Cindy Bernhard, Katya Muromtseva and Matthew F. Fisher, and Erik Probst’s ink drawing. The nature scenes by Mitsuyo Okada are permeated with brilliant, warm light. Thomas Trum’s paper studies of shapes and colors share the textural subtlety and monumental size with his canvases. Drawings by Deborah Brown, Gosha Levochkin and Shuto Okayasu are characterized by complex narratives and elaborate structure often found in paintings.

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In this summer exhibition, beaming with color and joie de vivre, painting on canvas is suggested, echoed and imitated, but don’t be deceived, it’s all fiction. Pulp fiction.