Stillness

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Chandra Cerrito Contemporary is pleased to announce Stillness, a solo exhibition of works by Bay Area artist Keira Kotler. This is Kotler’s third exhibition at Chandra Cerrito Contemporary.

For over a decade, Keira Kotler has explored luminosity and the resonance of color through reductive paintings, photographs, prints and videos. As she describes, her primary interest is in “perception and the possibilities that occur when one attends to the present moment.” She creates nearly monochromatic paintings with subtle value shifts using pigmented urethane on acrylic panels. In the “I Look for Light” series, she paints one layer per day over several weeks or months, encapsulating specific periods of time. Kotler’s photographs mounted on aluminum, photo installations and videos portray vivid colors removed from their source imagery, creating luminous, tonally complex compositions.

Visually and conceptually, the art historical roots of Kotler’s work can be traced to the Color Field paintings of Mark Rothko and Ad Reinhardt. Her work’s spareness, use of industrial materials and active interaction with surrounding space and light recall the sculptures of Minimalist Donald Judd. Her interest in light and phenomenological experience connects strongly to Light and Space artists James Turrell and Robert Irwin as well as to installation artists Olafur Eliasson and Erwin Redl. Kotler’s Bay Area contemporaries David Simpson, Jamie Brunson and Freddy Chandra also explore the formal and expressive capabilities of subtly shifting, luminous color.

Kotler’s nonobjective, visually immersive work is essentially experiential, directly engaging one’s senses. As such it is an invitation to pause and consciously perceive, enabling “discovery through stillness.”1

About the Artist
A graduate of UC Berkeley and Columbia University, Kotler received her MFA in painting from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2006. Her work has been exhibited nationally, including at the Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA; Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM; Gen Art, San Francisco, CA; Gallery NAGA, Boston, MA; Bridge Art Fair, Miami, FL; and SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM.

1 Keira Kotler, artist statement

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