Muriel Guépin Gallery is pleased to announce “At Wilderness” a new group show featuring the artwork of Treasure Frey and Robert Szot.

The show opens on Friday September 7, 2012 with an opening reception from 6:30-8 pm, and will be on view through October 21st, .

Treasure Frey is an instinctual artist, working in the moment and within the rhythm of life around her. She is fascinated by the natural world and the people and things that flow through that space, observing and recording with color what she sees and senses. Her recent work has become more minimal—elemental, but still using the color saturation -and focuses on relationships that mark her earlier, more illustrative work. She brings new life to old forgotten things, and makes new things old, staining her paper with walnut ink and creating a subtle, antiquated paper quilt on which to display her observations and interpretation of human behavior. She is a collector of old things, revering their worn, imperfect, textures and uses these images in her art, creating new ‘found’ objects with each piece. She hopes to deliver the delight of finding a hidden, neglected or forgotten relic; recreating the mystery or surprise of a found artifact.

Treasure‘s works have been shown in galleries and national art fairs in Seattle, Brooklyn, Oakland, San Francisco, Florida, and Texas since receiving her BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1997. She currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California.

Robert Szot’s oil paintings are wrestling with the conflict of impermanence. Szot’s methodology is primarily one of problem solving. Fine details are sometimes marred or sacrificed until the final composition has reached a more dynamic and complex resolution. 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. 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.