Lucy Pullen

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Ping Pong Gallery is pleased to present its first solo exhibition with Canadian artist Lucy Pullen, THE EFFECT EFFECT, opening on Friday, January 15th, 6-9PM.

"The night is abstract. If, the hour for classical art is mid-day, the hour of contemporary art is midnight." The works in this exhibition include six nocturnal landscapes painted at dusk, and three aluminum, crystalline forms. The paintings are landscapes in the classical sense, but abstractions in the contemporary sense. Bohm’s quantum theory suggests that one needs to look onto the world as an undivided whole. In this wholeness all parts of the universe, including the observer and his or her instruments, merge and unite. Painting by observation at dusk, Pullen explores this wholeness and the totality of our world as dynamic and flowing. While the paintings synthesize the individual woods, trees, mountains, and rivers, they simultaneously record their time, the contemporary hour when nature commingles with abstraction’s special darkness. Pullen paints using Payne’s Grey on aluminum, a decidedly thoughtful choice; the intermediacy of the chosen pigment shade speaks to metaphorical “shades of grey” - the difference between story and fact, the moment of diffusion where things are unending and limitless, without concrete reality, full of nuance. The sculptures belonging to a family of forms known as space-filling polyhedra, exist in the obscurity of these paintings, referencing crystalline stars, cosmic rays and beams of light. The world is at its visible limit both formally and conceptually. The paintings, sculptures, and artist are "contemporary."

Pullen is a visual artist based in New York City and Victoria B.C. Canada. Her work has been exhibited at Murray Guy Gallery in NYC; Platform Gallery in Seattle, the Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver, Luckman Gallery in Los Angeles, Art Metropole, Jessica Bradley Art & Projects and SL Simpson Gallery in Toronto, Optica in Montréal and the Eye Level Gallery in Halifax Nova Scotia. She received her MFA '01 from Tyler School of Art, Temple University in Philadelphia, and a BFA '93 from the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design in Halifax. She is pursuing a PhD in Media and Communication with the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee Switzerland. Pullen is a tenured Assistant Professor at the University of Victoria in British Columbia.

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