HERBERT HAMAK AND MAX JANSONS 2007 PRESS RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Herbert Hamak and Max Jansons to exhibit at CHRISTOPHER GRIMES GALLERY


Christopher Grimes Gallery will be presenting an exhibition of new work by German artist, Herbert Hamak and Los Angeles based artist, Max Jansons.

Hamak both maintains and revitalizes the tradition of painting with this new body of work. The paintings to be included in this exhibition extend the picture plane beyond the canvas support structure. The works are thus illuminated in reverse by light reflecting off the walls behind them, creating a new approach for investigating color within the genre of traditional monochromatic painting.

“His works impress because they are strongly structured, rigorous, transparent, and ambiguous entities. The transparency is such as to capture and retain light. The ambiguity lies in the vitreous consistency of the material, a midway point between solid, liquid and airy … It is not very important whether the work is on canvas and projects from the wall or if it builds up from a base on the floor: neither the one nor the other decides if a work is a painting or a sculpture. The decisive question is that matter reveals itself through its growth in volume.”

- Bertoni, Mario. “The Quintessence of Formed Form,” Herbert Hamak (catalogue), 2001

Herbert Hamak has exhibited in numerous museums and galleries throughout Europe, the United States and Japan. He is currently exhibiting a 5-meter column in the Main Garden at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, Italy, as well as working on a large-scale project at Castel Vecchio in Verona, Italy, which is due for completion in March of 2007.

The South Gallery will present Max Jansons in an exhibition entitled, Field Notes. Jansons, in his second show with the gallery, focuses on a new body of work which ventures beyond organic forms to an observational study of the natural world. Jansons work is specific in its content while still abstract in its execution.

A New York native, Jansons currently lives and works in Santa Monica, California. Jansons received his MFA from Columbia University and his BFA from UCLA. He participated in two solo exhibitions in 2004 and 2005 at Wooster Arts Space in New York. His work was included in the group shows Far Out at View Room Exhibitions in New York, curated by Joseph Roeder, and Some Dumb Fun, curated by David Pagel for the University of Nevada at Las Vegas.

For biographical information on Herbert Hamak or Max Jansons please visit our website at www.cgrimes.com or contact CHRISTOPHER GRIMES GALLERY 310-587-3373.

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