Robert Szot BLS (roman conflict) April 16th – May 26th, 2011 Reception, April 16th, 6:00 – 8:30 pm

Muriel Guepin Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition by Brooklyn painter Robert Szot. Entirely new canvases explore the artist’s internal dialogue as he attempts to construct his role in a new and unfamiliar circumstance. BLS (roman conflict) abstracts an unfolding event in the artist’s own life by creating space, balancing weight, and wrestling with the conflicts of impermanence.

Szot’s methodology is primarily one of problem solving. Thin layers of activity and line drawing peer through a more dominant foreground of broad color fields. This process provides a depth that becomes sharper in definition over time. In what can feel indecisive, Szot will re-work a canvas until the composition has reached a more complex resolution. Fine details are sometimes marred or sacrificed while other canvases become dynamic mazes of color and form.

Curator Robert Bunkin writes: “Robert Szot’s abstract paintings seem to come from the urban environment. They are reined in by architectonic structures, broad fields of color are interrupted by smaller gestures and idiosyncratic forms…his work has a palimpsest effect, where layers of previous activity bleed through the final layers of paint.”

Robert Szot lives and works in Brooklyn. He has exhibited throughout America and internationally. Szot has shown with The Painting Center and Melody Weir in New York and with the Saatchi Gallery in London. His work can be found in private collections worldwide.

A portion of the artist’s proceeds will be donated to Rett Syndrome research.

MURIEL GUEPIN GALLERY, 47 BERGEN STREET, BROOKLYN NEW YORK