OHT Gallery Boston

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Jeffrey Bishop

May 18 - June 24, 2006
Reception: Friday, June 2, 5:30 - 7:30 pm

O·H+T gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of recent paintings and works on paper by Jeffery Bishop. Bishop's painting reflects his continuing interest in computer generated imagery, architecture, particle physics and anatomy.

It is easy to see that Bishop's current work is built on the bones of his earlier painting. Amoebic shapes, containing the same high tech protoplasm that filled the earlier canvases, float on flat, colored backgrounds. The scale of these paintings is elusive: are they enlargements of microscopic environments or the reduction of galactic ones? Spatial relationships are in question as well: are we looking into pockets of another dimension or viewing the nucleic innards of strange creatures? Either way, the biology here is tech-y and the technology is visceral.

While it is easy to appreciate the quirky content of Bishop's paintings, their flawless execution and formal structure is also noteworthy. Beginning with computer generated compositions printed on canvas, Bishop paints back into the work with wandering lines, fluid washes, and opaque fields. The larger paintings are informed by the works on paper. Also conceived digitally, these small works allow the materials to work on a different scale. Charcoal dust suspended in translucent pools of resin become what one critic described as, "liquid atmosphere."

Jeffrey Bishop lives and works in Brooklyn. He attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the University of Washington in Seattle. Bishop has exhibited his work nationally and internationally, including exhibitions at the Seattle Art Museum, the Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, and the San Francisco Museum of Art. This is his second one-person exhibition at O·H+T.

Work by Gregory Miguel Gomez is featured in O·H+T's Project Room. Gomez's work is currently included in the 2006 Annual Exhibition at the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park.