Jack Youngerman will open the Fall 2001 Season with an exhibition of wood relief paintings which are a new medium for the artist. Layered and carved wood panels, evocative of abstract forms in nature, are painted in Youngerman's characteristic lush, brilliant colors. These most recent works range in scale from thirty-six inches high to an eight foot tall relief titled 'Apsaras.' There will be seven wood relief paintings in the exhibition and a group of watercolors which relate to them.

A catalogue with five color reproductions will be published including a passage from D'Arcy Thompson's On Growth and Form (see attached) which was selected by Youngerman because of its relevance to his work over many years.

Jack Youngerman has been exhibiting at the Joan T. Washburn Gallery since 1981. The most recent show in 1999 focused on Youngerman's paintings done in Paris in the early 1950s. In his ongoing search for different means of expression, previous Youngerman exhibitions have been devoted to sculpture executed in aluminum, wood, cast fiberglass or bronze; preceded by carved, painted polystyrene reliefs; and multi-paneled painted canvas screens.

Jack Youngerman's forthcoming exhibition of wood relief paintings is another development in what Barbara Rose described as his 'lifelong commitment to abstraction as well as to an aesthetic of poetic reverie, cultivated elegance, rhythmic flow and strong contrasts of color and form.'