DAN GAMBLE: Cause and Effect, New Paintings
DAN GAMBLE “Form” egg tempera on panel, 10″ x 10″, 2008 Courtesy Zg Gallery, Chicago
Exhibition Dates: September 5 – October 11, 2008
Opening Reception: Friday, September 5th, 5:30-7:30pm
Zg Gallery
300 W. Superior St.
Chicago, IL 60610
T. 312.654.9900
Preview Paintings: www.ZgGallery.com/gamble.htm
Dan Gamble exhibits nine new paintings in his first solo show with Zg Gallery, Chicago. Gamble states, “I consider my work visual inventions. A synthesis of organic forms and geometric structures, each image presents numerous possibilities: armatures or architectural models, anatomical fragments, mechanical devices, botanical growths, diaphanous vapors. These hybrids either float in an atmospheric field or exist in an undetermined landscape. All appear to be in a state of growth or decay. This body of work attempts to balance opposing ideas: structure vs. disorder, impulse vs. deliberation, emotion vs. intellect, growth vs. decay. While attempting to reconcile these ideas within each painting, innumerable changes take place. A great deal of time is spent painting images that will ultimately be destroyed or submerged. This process is necessary; each piece is a puzzle that consists of many false starts and abandoned paths. Rather than setting a predetermined result, I choose!
an
approach that reflects uncertainty or unpredictability, one that allows the past to influence the present.”
Dan Gamble received his M.F.A. from The University of New Mexico in Albuquerque and his B.F.A. from The University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee.