November 27 at the Hiraya Gallery sees the opening of abstractionist Lindslee's new exhibitIon, "Work Like Nobody Is Watching.”
With works that straddle between completely non-representational abstraction and the 'pure painting' of Orphism, the artist interrogates the romanticized notion of art-making as a solitary, almost auto-erotic process with the employment of thick strokes on large-scale canvasses that tackle themes of focus and distraction, destruction and wholeness, solitude and company.
If the self as psychological subject splinters into the phantasmatic mirror-image of the Symbolic order, is the lonesome artist truly without audience in the private performance of his painting, or is he the secret exhibitionist whose watchers are his own multiple selves?
Culture as the psychic police that structures by way of implicit laws gestures for painting and rebellion: watch Lindslee engage and revel in it using colors that clash and collide, then ultimately captivate. Hopefully, the audience will be greater than just the artist's innumerable selves.
‘Work Like No One is Watching’ runs till December 15. Hiraya Gallery is located at 530 U.N. Avenue, Ermita, Manila. For more information, please call 523-3331 or email hiraya@info.com.ph or visit www.hiraya.com
