The compositions often imply illuminated portals, thresholds or passages, which reinforce the viewer's sense of flowing time and space. Slightly trembling rectilinear forms hint at an underlying mathematical logic among the kinetic collisions. The rich colors, inky blacks and glowing particles resemble both enormous celestial occurrences and minute energized reactions. The resulting images contain deep, mysterious spaces seemingly captured in moments of flux. Building layers of oil, acrylic and alkyd paint, he overlaps ethereal incandescent volumes, crackling sparks and structured linear elements. Mann is inspired by the uncertainty of human perception when glimpsing forces of nature that are typically hidden from view. Each is given the focused attention of the artist to create, through the use of intense colors and luminously transparent glazes, worlds which are primitive and elemental. The works in the exhibition ranging from the monochromatic 12 x 12-inch square Huddle, to the 60-inch square painting, Anthem, are fully realized paintings. In his second solo show at the gallery, Mann focuses on themes of galactic and oceanic light, transparency and opacity of space, and the illusion of time.
Margaret Thatcher Projects is pleased to present a series of new abstract paintings by David Mann to commence the gallery’s 2020 Spring programming.
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