GALLERY 207

SPACE'D

"You will get lost in this work."

Los Angeles artist GORDY GRUNDY makes his Solo Debut with hisseries, Space'd. Epic in nature, the work is vast and cinematic.Grundy, a native of Southern California, brings us the grandiosityof Hollywood and the soulfulness of the surf culture. Much isreflected in his Western horizontality.

"My influences are the Veniceartists of the Sixties," answers Grundy, "Ed Ruscha,John McCraken, Joe Goode, Ed Moses, Robert Irwin and Vija Celmens."In his new series, Grundy's immediacy is reminiscent of the earlyAbstract Expressionists. References can be made to the gesturalaggression of Jackson Pollack, the color and spirituality of MarkRothko, the emotionalism of Franz Kline and the reverence of CalifornianAgnes Pelton.

The Space'd Series is minimalist atits foundation and meditative by nature. Grundy explains, "Istarted the Series at a time when there was great change in mylife. I wanted to create another world, a safer place that I couldescape to. It's important that the paintings be emotionally rawand courageously honest." Conceptually, the work speaks morestrongly from the heart than the head.

 

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