When I dropped by Silverman Gallery this week most of the Shannon Finley show had been taken down (I suspect due to Miami art fair shiznit), but happily three of his perfect paintings remained on one wall. I see a lot of artists working in geometrical abstractions these days, and it can get tiresome to say the least. However Finley brings a refreshing immediacy to his work in his use of layered shapes as well as colors not known to occur in nature. The visual references to De Stijl, Suprematism, and Cubism are all there too, but filtered through a contemporary lens that owes a lot to computer graphics and digital manipulation. Though born in Ontario, Canada, Finley now lives and works in Berlin, just adding to my determination to go spend some quality time in that city much sooner rather than later. The art and music coming out of there right now is just rad.
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