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"Apparent Opposites" a group exhibit of contemporary abstract works by Bay Area and International artists opening Tuesday, May 31st and running through Saturday, July 30th, 2005.
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Featured Artists:
Ilan Laks
Theo den Boon
Hans Vanhorck
Paula Evers
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Ilan Laks
“The process of my painting is the un-filtered release of gathered experience and the revelation of form. The act of creation is the process of this discovery. As content emerges through the process, archetypes assemble. I would like my paintings to strike a chord that is rarely heard: one that will provide a reconciliatory perspective of the chaos.”
Ilan Laks was born in Boston, Massachusetts on May 21st, 1972. Laks began painting as a young adolescent and displayed an early talent for illustrating archetypes, those often strange and alien images that lurked in the unspoken shadows of his environment. Laks moved to San Francisco and attended the San Francisco Art Institute where he studied painting and film. Besides his primary focus of oil on canvas, he has created several stage sets and original theater illustrations. Laks has worked on many murals for public spaces and private residences. His murals are effective at drawing out the harmony and spirit of a specific space. Ilan Laks continues to attract private commissions and his oil paintings are regularly displayed in public venues and galleries. |
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Theo den Boon
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“Painting is like a dream giving access to an inner poetic world”, says artist Theo den Boon. (1944) Man may dream without interference but when de Boon paints in his intuitive manner, he very consciously adds figurative accents in strong colors. For the rest, he lets his compositions on linen or paper emerge naturally: “One work springs from the other, I am mainly guided by feelings or by intuition”, the artist declares.
Theo den Boon makes use of strong brush strokes, eye-catching pools of paint and white patches that highlight the contour of a subject. Pastel veils of blue and yellow are interspersed with the bold stripes and spots to soften the crisp edges and kinetic energy of the work. Graphic fragments of white, yellow, red and blue hold the attention of the viewer and emerge to add order in the created chaos of the composition. Den Boon orchestrates his materials to instill a beguiling air of mystery in his completed works. Thus viewers are permitted to examine a dream of color that is the private world of Theo de Boon.
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Hans Vanhorck
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The work of Hans Vanhorck (1952) has run, over the years, along a striking route. From penetrative research of visible reality he passed, via abstraction and the fathoming of myths with which society imagines itself, to the interpretation of concepts by way of painting.
Vanhorck has learned to turn the gaze from the outside to “the inside”. He achieves this without losing himself in private affairs, avoiding the pitfall through which art is sometimes reduced to “autobiography”. With every painting he digs deeper and comes closer to the foundation, the skeleton, which supports the skyscraper of culture. Vanhorck analyses and dissects but is no archeologist or anatomist. He does not depict random construction matter and ruins, but the living and changing organism of the society reflected in the medium of his art.
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Paula Evers
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In recent years the paintings of Paula Evers (1942) have developed along two distinct but parallel paths. In one body of work she explores abstracted standing figures, subtley conveying emotion through gesture and color. Some figures press themselves forward, as if present when the painting was initiated, while other pairs turn away, sharing quiet moments and looking deep into the atmosphere. In another group of paintings a series of landscapes arise in which the human figure seems to be totally absent. Often, single islands of form burst through empty spatial fields of cobalt and orange. Although quite different at first glance, these two paths share a related palette, luminous surface quality, and a dreamlike resonance that only Paula Evers, a true contemporary Dutch master, can convey.
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