Dolby Chadwick Presents Alex Kanevsky Installation Opening September 7

From the gallery: Dolby Chadwick Gallery is pleased to present ‘Last Days Before Bright Future’ an exhibition of spectacular new paintings by Alex Kanevsky. This exhibition coincides with the release of a monograph chronicling the past 23 years of Kanevsky’s work, available at the gallery or online.

Over the past two decades, Kanevsky has brought us numerous windows into the human figure. Whether lying on a bed, turning away, sharing a meal, or riding a horse, his models seem one with their surroundings. Ironically, it is through Kanevsky’s mode of blurring, blending, and refracting that they seem to be made whole. Interior and exterior are made mutable. Subject and environment exist in a shared space. Color and marks flow like air, light, and water to bind the animate with the inanimate.

Kanevsky’s paintings resound with a fluid, sensual energy. Bodies often appear suspended in space as they converge and intersect with their surroundings. Forms move through each other, as if all matter were malleable. In The Source, interiors pulsate as walls and floors bend and shift, patterns rippling and expanding outward as they blend with muted natural greens at the painting’s epicenter. The setting contorts and the figures enter a dream. The soft focus of their closed eyelids leads them to a world teeming with energy.

September 7—30, 2023
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 7th, 5:30—7:30pm

Dolby Chadwick Gallery is open Tuesday–Friday (9am–6pm) and Saturday (11am–5pm).
We ask that visitors schedule an appointment to view exhibitions or a selection of artworks.