“A bit” Installation view at N/A ©N/AA bit, a solo exhibition by Paul Barlow (b. 1988), is on view at N/A from July 14 through August 12.
Paul Barlow creates his images by layering diluted acrylic paint on canvas and moving over them with a water-soaked brush. The shapes spread and form naturally within the paintings, and resulting images are reminiscent of scientific images of organisms.
In this exhibition, the artist presents work with titles that use a series of periods and bullet points, “.” and “•”. This succession of titles relates to a concept that has been central to the artist’s work and exhibition. The artists says that each small part of the work seems to reveal a whole on its own, which reminds him of a fractal, a basic structure of nature. The images seem to progress and move from one stage to the next. This flow of transition and evolution found within the paintings is uncertain and fluid rather than linear. What the works capture through this is a state of transition from one phase to the next.
In this exhibition, we can see Paul Barlow’s work in a continuous flow, with each part having its own structure.
