Controlled Chance

Upper Gallery
March 14 - May 30, 2024

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"It is often said that Gilliam’s painting style is inspired by jazz... Colors blended, interpenetrated, and formed expressive, abstract worlds of color that were beyond the artist’s control, despite the regulated production process."
Ann Mbuti

"I think that lack of control helps to open up this whole way of working, where it’s much more about pooling and letting the alchemical aspects of the paint happen. It’s about directing but not really enforcing what happens."
Jackie Saccoccio

At times, [Saito's] brushwork is controlled, deliberate... at others, he trusted the pigment to go where it wanted. Animated by this accumulation of painterly incident, incongruous tones and textures, variations of line, the surface takes on a life of its own."
Rachel Wetzler

"I follow the materials and my instinct... When I am working I am in a deep unknowing. It's the best part of making art—that silencing of all thinking except the feeling of form and materials and making contact with some other force."
Beverly Pepper

"I did not correct my movements; if they were false, I had to leave them false because I felt that the thinner I paint, the less I can lie... How can one direct spontaneity? One can only rely on the truth of the moment."
Friedel Dzubas