PRESS RELEASE

Leonard Kogan
Fusion: 2003
January 12 – February 3, 2004
Reception: Thursday, January 15, 6:00 – 8:00 PM

NEW YORK – Globe Institute Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new work by Leonard Kogan, opening January 12th and continuing through February 3rd, 2004.

The exhibition, titled Fusion 2003, will feature eleven recent paintings, oil on canvas, all 20 inches high and 40 inches wide. Fusion represents not only the current dilemma of chimera and abstraction as reciprocate underbellies, but also fields of color as landscapes on their own rights.

Debris Glacier and Pure Stroke, for example, unravel spatial fields underneath their silky surfaces. Mapping the meanderings of hand, eye, mind and colors to those of natural phenomena—wind, cloud, sky, horizon, land, mist, vapor, water—these works state the attributes of painting as much as they negate any finality.

The other paintings oscillate their contents between natural and urban spaces. The painterly syntax of Kogan in these works, despite their twentieth- and twenty-first-century edges, includes modeling, coloristic versus linear dialogue, and the struggle, pleasure, engagements, disengagements, suffusions, profusions, delusions, disappointments, turnarounds and problems of painting.

Leonard Kogan’s interest in exploring the infinite relations of colors forms the order of his paintings. This order, a system, is both a tribute to and a self-assured move in other directions from the works of not only such masters as Turner and Rothko, but such contemporaries as Richter and Bleckner as well, whose works he observes closely.

For further information, please contact Raphy Sarkissian at T 212.349.4330 ext. 110.