George Thiewes:
Penumbra in White
September 5 – October 25, 2008
EVO Gallery
554 South Guadalupe Street
Santa Fe, NM 87501
505-982-4610
director@evogallery.org
http://www.evogallery.org
Sculptor George Thiewes has developed a practice of creating elegant, minimal black sculptures that appear to advance and recede with perceptual fluidity. With rare attention to craft, Thiewes cuts, welds, grinds, and paints these works himself. Installation and lighting are critical to the artist, who uses shadow as a central element in his aesthetic vocabulary.
For his new show, Thiewes has created a body of white sculptures, painted the same color as the gallery walls. Mounted on or in the wall, the sculptures, as large as ten feet long, appear barely visible as their shadows take on penumbrous form. First coined by Johannes Kepler in his astronomical meditations, penumbra refers to the mysterious degrees of shadows emanating from an illuminated, opaque body, such as the shadows of the moon during an eclipse. Thiewes explores this painterly phenomenon using light and shadow on sculptural form within an architectural space with uniquely poetic results that are paradoxically powerful and subtle. Penumbra in White is Thiewes’s second show at EVO Gallery.
