Robert Kingston: New Work    Apr 19 - May 30, 2009

The paintings Robert Kingston has produced for this exhibition are part of his own lineage of abstraction that has evolved over some twenty years.

Kingston draws viewers into a narrative of painting where the story of the work is just as important and tangible as the final piece. Erasures and idea shifts become compositional anchors and eccentric lines, forms, and sketches, the thoughts between the lines. The broad scope of energies and emotions Kingston conjures in his series of large-scale paintings, shows a response to music that infects his work and a trust of the intuition that drives rich layering and modifications. Within Kingston’s thin veils of pale acrylic grounds, are gestures of pigmented smudging, washing, scraping and dripping. These painterly moments collect and dissipate to form organic landscape impressions, yet remain firmly planted in the language of abstraction.

The artist’s searching for resolution remains transparent in breathy, atmospheric movements of paint, creating soulful works of art that speak to a range of emotions, and open a small window into the artist’s own inner spaces and influences. Shifting from placid to energetic, structured to improvised, sober to playful, Kingston’s paintings are a steady, engrossing read that gradually reveal their history and resolve.