JACK YOUNGERMAN
Recent Wood Relief Paintings
October 16 ­ November 15, 2003

This exhibiton of Jack Youngerman's wood relief paintings continues the artist¹s exploration of biomorphic forms carved and painted in brilliant reds, orange and blues. Youngerman's first showed his carved wood relief paintings at the Washburn Gallery in 2001. One critic then described Youngerman as "intent on giving abstract form to the sometime rhapsodic, sometimes violent forces of nature."

The simplicity of Youngerman's organic shapes and the purity of his color evoke Arp and Matisse as precedents but their energy has a Pop inflection creating an edginess unique to Youngerman's reliefs.

An introduction by Dore Ashton appears in the brochure for the exhibition along with five color reproductions of the relief paintings.