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Artist: Frederic Bender
Show: "At the Periphery of Recognition"
Sponsor: Boulder County Arts Alliance
URL: www.yessy.com/fbenderartist
About the Show
Gallery: Gallery: Barnes and Noble Cafe
28th and Pearl St.
Boulder, CO.
Dates: July 1 - 31, 2006
Reception: Thursday, July 6, 2006 5:30 - 7:00
URL: www.barnesandnobleinc.com
The rubric "At the Periphery of Recognition" points to the Zen-like aspect of Bender's art, which cuts through the confinement of the rationally-ordered mind. For the artist, accident, gravity, and the fluid response of paint combine with human gesture to form a structured, though non-representational, unity. For the observer, limitless combinations of relationships among pictorial elements (strokes, colors, flows) form a higher-order whole, irreducible to the pictorial elements themselves, within which objects seem to arise and pass away with unexpected perceptual and emotional effects.
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