thicket oil on linen 63" x 67"
Thursday, October 3, 2013
Sunday, August 25, 2013
Sunday, June 30, 2013
Sunday, June 16, 2013
Saturday, June 8, 2013
Friday, May 31, 2013
Sunday, May 19, 2013
Sunday, April 28, 2013
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Friday, April 12, 2013
Thursday, March 28, 2013
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Saturday, March 16, 2013
Saturday, March 9, 2013
Thursday, February 28, 2013
littlemisunderstandings
littlemisunderstandings 18" x 23" oil on jute over panel
girlwiththecurl 10" x 8" oil on cardboard on panel
mirroring 21.5" x 16.5" oil on linen
Friday, February 22, 2013
Saturday, February 16, 2013
Saturday, February 2, 2013
Friday, January 25, 2013
Saturday, January 5, 2013
Saturday, December 22, 2012
tickingtime
SOS 29" x 26" oil on printed textile
tickingtime 13" x 16" oil on ticking
castofcharacters 18" x 15" oil on linen
shapeshift 52" x 42" oil on linen
Friday, November 30, 2012
infiniticampfire
hereandtogetherness 27" x 31" oil on linen
ichabod 27" x 31" oil on linen
infiniticampfire 29" x 18" oil on linen
Sunday, November 11, 2012
apartmenthut
apartmenthut 27" x 25" oil on linen
bendinglight 28" x 25" oil on linen
chexmix 27" x 23" oil on linen
coaster 24" x 15" oil on linen
colourmein 29" x 29" oil on textile
envelopeme 23" x 22" oil on denim
Saturday, November 3, 2012
Haiku Review by Peter Frank in the Huffington Post
Joshua Aster follows a very simple formula, one that
allows – indeed, requires – him to enliven his paintings with some sort
of mojo that makes them dance off the wall. Aster repeats a particular
unit myriad times within a small space (nothing in this show exceeded
two feet), organizing the repeated forms into a dense and rather
irregular skein, less a pattern than an accumulation. He renders these
dense, obsessive fields with breathtaking luminosity, thinning his oils
halfway to gouache and allowing them a certain – but not total – degree
of saturation. The compactness of the paintings themselves, the engaging
eccentricity of the schemata, the colors’ restrained vividness, add up
exponentially, resulting in paintings with a gemlike intensity and the
tang of hard candy; they fairly explode in your eye. (Sam Lee, 990 N.
Hill St., LA; closed. www.samleegallery.com)
– Peter Frank
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/02/haiku-reviews-freud-rigol_n_2065397.html#slide=1714161
– Peter Frank
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/02/haiku-reviews-freud-rigol_n_2065397.html#slide=1714161
Sunday, October 14, 2012
unweaves
This series of feather-weight sculptures are made from disassembled basket parts. The sculptures and their shadows are used as stencils to create compositions on linen. Oil paint is aggressively and directly applied with color allusions to night, mirrors and time elapsing. Flatness and space are pulling at each other.
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
LA Times Review and James Kalm Report
Review: Alluring 'Little Conversations' with Joshua Aster at Sam Lee
Joshua Aster, "Spin Cycle," 2012, oil on linen, 19 x 18 inches.
(Sam Lee Gallery, Los Angeles) |
By Holly Myers
Viewed as an ever-expanding
aggregate, Joshua Aster’s paintings have the feel of so many pictorial
petri dishes, in which constituent elements of painting’s DNA — color,
tone, shape, pattern, texture — are assembled in varying combinations
and ratios and left to reproduce of their own accord. The result is a
nuanced, playful abstraction that grows ever more complex as its genes
continue to splinter and stew.
September 25, 2012, 3:12 p.m.
In “Little Conversations,” Aster’s first exhibition with Sam Lee Gallery, he seems to have taken a step or two back. He’s shifted from acrylic and watercolor to oils, reduced his canvases to a modest, domestic scale not exceeding 24 inches, and introduced a range of new shapes, made by tracing the outlines of common objects found around the studio. Where many of the earlier works appeared layered and translucent, these are flat and opaque, heavier of step.
A similar air of curiosity prevails, however. They’re simpler paintings, but paintings that shimmer with the promise of a new acquaintance — appealing “little conversations,” in other words, that leave one eager to see where Aster goes from here.
Sam Lee Gallery, 990 N. Hill St., #190, Los Angeles, (323) 788-3535, through Oct. 6. Closed Sunday through Tuesday. www.samleegallery.com
Honored to be on the James Kalm Report
Sunday, September 23, 2012
sighting
imminentreturn 17" x 16" oil on linen
overunder 16" x 12" oil on linen
patchoverlap 24" x 17" oil on linen
sighting 15" x 18" oil on linen
Saturday, August 25, 2012
little conversations at Sam Lee Gallery
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Joshua Aster
little conversations
...
September 5 – October 6, 2012
Reception for the Artists: Saturday, September 15, 6 – 8 pm
Los Angeles—Sam Lee Gallery is pleased to present little conversations,
a solo exhibition of abstract paintings by Los Angeles-based artist
Joshua Aster. The artist’s recent oil paintings function as a type of
sieve in which color, line, and patterns are distilled to their essence
on the canvas. Nine works, measuring no more than 24x24 inches each,
are intimate in scale and elemental in their emphasis on straightforward
mark making. Aster employs ordinary objects such as wood off-cuts,
erector set parts, broken plates, and picture frames found in his studio
and intuitively arranges them on the canvas. He then traces their
outlines and finishes the work by coloring in between the lines with oil
paint, thus creating a familiar yet fresh pattern that resembles a
brightly colored jigsaw puzzle: a confident display of color, line, and
shape.
Born 1976 in New York, Joshua Aster received a master of
fine art degree from University of California Los Angeles (2007) and a
bachelor of fine art degree from Skidmore College in New York (1998).
He has been featured in exhibitions throughout the United States: solo
shows at Carl Berg Gallery in Los Angeles, Karl Hutter Fine Art in
Beverly Hills, and Utah Museum of Contemporary Art in Salt Lake City
(Utah). His work has also been included in various group exhibitions at
Roberts & Tilton, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Michael Kohn Gallery,
PØST Gallery, Annie Wharton Fine Art, Taylor de Cordoba, and Pepin Moore
in Los Angeles, Angstrom Gallery in Dallas, and Plane Space in New
York. Aster is a founding member of the artist collective OJO, which
has had solo projects at MOCA, Los Angeles and LA>
Digital images are available for press purposes. Please email sam@samleegallery.com for reproduction requests.
Sam Lee Gallery
990 North Hill Street #190
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Mobile 323-788-3535
sam@samleegallery.com
Gallery Hours: Wednesday - Saturday, 12 to 6 pm and by appointment
Saturday, July 21, 2012
dataprocessing
dataprocessing 23" x 23" oil on linen
The HOLODECK, PØST, Thursday, July 26th, 7-9PM
organized by Brad Eberhard
The
Holodeck is a simulated reality facility on the USS Enterprise
NCC-1701-D, the primary setting of the American science-fiction
television series Star Trek the Next Generation. The characters on the
show use the Holodeck for a variety of applications, including
recreation, training, and problem solving. Although crew
members can program in the environment or scenario they wish to
inhabit, they cannot necessarily control their experience once inside.
Things go wrong with it pretty regularly. People get stuck inside and
can’t get out. Like art, the Holodeck is an ideal world in which
refreshment and conflict go hand in hand.
The HOLODECK is a group show whose participants were each given a card from a deck of Star Trek the Next Generation playing cards as a prompt for an artwork. Each person was presented with the option to select a card with a specific character/theme or to receive a card randomly from the deck. The breakdown was about 50/50, specific vs. random. They could use the their card as a source, an object, or the starting point for any manner of conceptual strategy that suited them. The show will include a variety of 2, 3, and 4 dimensional media.
The HOLODECK is a group show whose participants were each given a card from a deck of Star Trek the Next Generation playing cards as a prompt for an artwork. Each person was presented with the option to select a card with a specific character/theme or to receive a card randomly from the deck. The breakdown was about 50/50, specific vs. random. They could use the their card as a source, an object, or the starting point for any manner of conceptual strategy that suited them. The show will include a variety of 2, 3, and 4 dimensional media.
Saturday, July 7, 2012
bagotrix, beadedcandlecurtain, redhead
bagotrix 19" x 19" oil on canvas
beadedcandlecurtain 18" x 17" oil on linen
redhead 54" x 72" oil on canvas
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