OHT Gallery Boston

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New Paintings

Thaddeus Beal

October 3 - 25, 2003
Reception: Friday, October 3, 5:30 - 7:30 pm

O·H+T gallery is pleased to exhibit the new paintings of Thaddeus Beal. After focusing on drawings and prints for several years, Beal returns to painting with an exciting body of work that relates to both his previous paintings and the intervening graphic work.

Beal’s cerebral subject matter (non-linear physics, interrelated patterns, chaos theory, fractal space) is still present in these paintings, but it is enriched by a new physicality. Deviating from the classical control and balance of his earlier paintings, Beal’s new work is more intuitive, wetter, and more tactile. In Open Field 4, washes, splatters and pours, reminiscent of Pollock, form a painterly field through which interlocking squiggles weave. Beal’s treatment of the edge in these works also brings Pollock to mind. Both artists address the edge as a boundary and the painting as a picture plane, rather than a window or mask isolating a piece of continuing surface.

Thaddeus Beal attended Yale College and Stanford Law School and practiced law until 1984. He received a diploma and Fifth Year Certificate from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in 1989. Beal has exhibited his work nationally and internationally and is represented in many private and public collections including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. This is his second one-person exhibition at O·H+T gallery.