On view: November 6 -December 5, 2004
Opening reception: Saturday, November 6, 5 –7pm

Recent Work

Matt Freedman + Arlington Weithers

Sculpture by Matt Freedman and painting by Arlington Weithers.

This exhibition brings together recent work by two artists who approach art from very different angles. Arlington Weithers showed two large paintings at the Brooklyn Museum’s OpenHouse: Working in Brooklyn exhibition. They were described in a New York Times review as “one of the surprise of the exhibition.”

Matt Freedman, a New York based writer and curator, received an MFA from the University of Iowa. In New York he has exhibited his work at the Sculpture Center, Florence Lynch, Ronald Feldman, vertexlist galleries, and at the Brooklyn Museum’s Open House exhibition. He curated the outdoor sculpture exhibition Six Artists, currently on view at Long Island University.

Weithers’ exuberant abstract canvases are alive with implied phenomena of nature. These paintings draw the viewer into the delight of looking and seeing and into the pleasure of discovery. They are the result of an intense involvement with the formalism of paint and canvas and with an openness to the unknown. Guyana born Arlington Weithers received his BFA from Brooklyn College and studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. He has shown at White Columns, New York, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, Open House Exhibition, and the Brooklyn Museum. In 2004 he presented a solo exhibition at Centro Mexicano, de la Turtuga, Oaxaca, Mexico Matt Freedman contributes five life-sized sculptures to the exhibition. They are based on everyday objects: a drawer, a cake, a chair, an easel and a fruit tree. They have somehow meandered off course; their efficient significance blurred by an ambivalent hand.

DIRECTIONS:

Take 2, 3, or 4 trains to Franklin Avenue. Walk two blocks against the traffic on Franklin. Walk ¾ block to 558 St. Johns Place. FiveMyles is within easy walking distance from the Brooklyn Museum.