Alex Couwenberg and Curtis Cutshaw: Geometric Generation

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Alex Couwenberg "Cascade", 2018

acrylic on canvas over panel, 66" x 48" x 1.75"

The Kostuik Gallery is excited to introduce our September Exhibition of new paintings by Alex Couwenberg and Curtis Cutshaw. Geometric Generation combines accomplished painters who express addictive and reductive paint techniques to create formal compositions of movement and textures all through highly skilled paint application unique to each artist.

California based Alex Couwenberg pays homage to the historical styles of the visual language used by hard-edge, geometric abstractionist, the Finish Fetish and Light and Space artists who were influential in shaping the aesthetic of Los Angeles and Southern California art during the 1950’s to the 1970’s. His paintings reference and suggest influences from custom car culture, surfing, skateboarding, and music, at the same time glossed over with the sensibility of mid-century modernist design.

Calgary based Curtis Cutshaw continues his Levels & Constructs series of paintings employing fractured, deconstructed and organic images on individual birch wood tiles, which create a sense of removal of purpose. The images hold a complexity, which evokes visual harmony. Scratched, rubbed, marked, erased and distressed images hint at re purposing and the multiple pieces appear to have a history, where in fact the artist creates them.