John Walker: Changing Light
Knoedler & Company, New York
March 13 - April 26, 2003
Knoedler & Company presents John Walker: Changing Light, an exhibition of new paintings.
Walker's landscapes inspired by the coast of Maine were first presented at Knoedler in the 2001 exhibition "John Walker: Time and Tides". Since then, they have been the subject of three museum exhibitions—"A Maine Tidal Cove" at Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine (2001); "John Walker", The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. (2002); and "John Walker: Oceans, Tidepools and Plein Air Paintings", Wiegand Art Gallery, Notre Dame de Namur University, Belmont, California (2002).
This new body of work departs from his earlier Maine-inspired paintings towards an even greater degree of abstraction, and freedom of expression and movement, while retaining, as Eliza Rathbone has stated in the catalogue text, "a belief in the power to move us." Titles such as Changing Light, Clammer's Moon, and Reflections, Low Tide "suggest an artist working out of doors attending to an unexpected effect of light." "Opaque and transparent, grounded and buoyant, gritty and luminous," these are among Walker's most "seductive" and exciting, purely painterly works. They "impress upon us a sense of adventure and discovery, a response to the unexpected that is rare to find in painting today."
A catalogue, with text by Eliza Rathbone, Chief Curator of The Phillips Collection, accompanies the exhibition.
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