ABIGAIL OGILVY GALLERY
Boston, MA, USA

Abigail Ogilvy Gallery

Abigail Ogilvy Gallery will exhibit a two-person presentation featuring artists Austin Eddy and Natalia Wróbel. Both artists create a visual dialogue through hidden shapes, scaffolding, and figures. For Eddy, his process produces semi-representational works that convey emotions and energies of situations and individuals; the paintings have been broken down to the basic building blocks of each story or object being portrayed. For Wróbel, she establishes the conditions all-over the canvas, utilizing the natural movement of her body to create a foundation for the painting, which she considers a “sacred scaffolding.” She then dives into the composition and attempts to resolve the chaos. The resulting paintings seem alive—at one glance still, at another moving—with forms coming together and breaking apart.

For Eddy, the question “what is painting” is at the forefront of his exploration and experimentation. Through the tools of abstraction and other historical painting languages, he breaks down qualitative aspects of painting and questions the validity of “seriousness.” He finds answers to this question by making paintings though play. 

In Wróbel’s paintings, she references mindfulness philosophy, neural networks, elements from nature, particle cosmology, classical, jazz, and electronic music, ancient architecture, lyric poetry, and theories about the interconnectedness of the universe to elicit meditative abstractions. The imagery becomes their own personal language. Eddy utilizing geometric assemblages that become objects, and within Wrobél’s brushstrokes a place and time emerge.

The two artists are true painters, their artwork responding to modern events while also looking back at the art historical canon.