NYAB Event - Ann Pibal "Drmn’"

Ann Pibal "Drmn’"

Meulensteen

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Meulensteen is proud to announce Drmn’, an exhibition of new paintings by Ann Pibal. The show will be accompanied by a catalog with an essay by Robert Storr. In this series of paintings, Pibal continues to explore the possibilities of her medium through her abstract geometric compositions. As the artist explains about her process, “rather than settling on certain motifs, the work develops as a rolling question.”

Pibal’s acrylic on aluminum paintings are at once brainy and open-ended, hard-edged and intimate. The exhibition comprises paintings rendered on a small domestic scale, although Pibal occasionally conducts her explorations in color and line in a larger format. Though the work appears at first to result from calculated design, Pibal relies instead on a process of improvisation. While the paintings seem to adhere to a strict geometry, upon closer inspection they reveal subtle yet determined deviations. The works on view exemplify the razorsharp refinement of Pibal’s palette and her banded, muscular compositions. In several of her most recent works, brusque brushstrokes bump up against crisp, masked edges.