FOR 5-11

PAUL KOLKER’S GARDEN VIEWS AT STUDIO 601 IN NYC MAY 17

avv/gs set #698664

NEW YORK CITY — Studio 601 announces Paul Kolker’s salon show, “surge on to the gardens,” May 17–June 29, about the urgency to rescue one’s hibernal and wintry hemisphere by regreening one’s environment, thoughts and feelings.

What began as an experiment about minimalism in 1980 has evolved into Kolker’s procedure-based style of painting which he calls “fracolor.” Using waffle-glass at first and now fractal computer programs, the artist fractionates the subject image and paints and silkscreens a grid circumscribing colored dots.

The exhibit will depict roses, dahlias, impatiens, water lilies, a bouquet and garden statuary, as well as the mythological story of Persephone picking flowers with her sisters in the plain of Enna. Demeter, goddess of fertility, in her anguish over Hades’ abduction of her daughter, Persephone, had created (as the story goes) the first wintry “inconvenient truth.”

Twelve paintings and sculptures will be on view downstairs at the salon of studio 601.

The studio is at 511 West 25th Street. For information, 212-367-7300.