FOR 4/18
FOR 4/18
PAUL WINSTANLEY OPENS APRIL 18 AT MITCHELL-INNES & NASH IN NYC
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NEW YORK CITY â Mitchell-Innes & Nash presents its first solo exhibition of British painter Paul Winstanley. Winstanleyâs first New York show in more than ten years will be on view in the Chelsea gallery from April 18 to May 24.
Winstanleyâs imagery derives from photographs, usually his own. He engages traditional genres of painting such as the landscape, interior and still life, filtered through the lens of photography. The result is a photographic image with an unmistakably painterly surface.
His paintings often depict repeated variations of the same scene: a landscape glimpsed through a window curtain, a barren, dimly-lit walkway or the waiting room of an anonymous corporate office. Although these still, depopulated spaces are mundane, Winstanley suffuses them with a mood of melancholy or romance, revealing their psychological underpinnings.
His work is both concerned with how the photograph mediates oneâs experience of vision, and how the painted world can overcome photographyâs supposed neutrality.
Born in 1954 in Manchester, England, Winstanley lives and works in London. He has exhibited throughout the United States and Europe. His first retrospective will be on view at the Auckland Art Space in New Zealand from April 26 to May 31, a fully-illustrated catalog will accompany the exhibition. Paul Winstanley is represented in New York by Mitchell-Innes & Nash.
Mitchell-Innes & Nash Chelsea is at 534 West 26th Street, between 10th and 11th Avenues. For more information, www.miandn.com or 212-744-7400.
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