SPACE'D
at GALLERY 207

"You will get lost in this work."

Los Angeles artist GORDY GRUNDY made his Solo Debut with the series,Space'd. "There are two influences (for the series),"says the Los Angeles based artist, "One is Chet Baker whotold us to "Get Lost" and the second is the artworkof John McCraken. He calls his clean, minimal sculptures a "portalto another world." I think if you "fell" into oneof McCrakens sculptures, you'd land into one of my paintings."

Grundy, a native of Southern California,brings us Epic work with the grandiosity of Hollywood and thesoulfulness of the surf culture. With rectangular canvases, horizontallyhung, much is reflected in the artist's Western Horizontality,a perspective of sea and sky.

"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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