Solid Green is a two-person painting show by Wallace Whitney and Sam Martineau. Both are artists committed to painterly abstraction. This exhibition examines the impulse to paint from two distinct standpoints.

Martineau’s intimate paintings spring from abstraction and observation with diverse counterpoints occurring within each frame. The pleasure of viewing these pictures is to participate in Martineau’s subtle color decisions and characteristic draftsmanship, a hybrid blend of advertising, collage and automatic writing.

Wallace Whitney’s paintings are muscular, painted with the body, alternating from quick shifts of push/pull, to slow readings of deep space. Whitney’s colors are deep and tonal, corresponding to nature, but more directly to emotional states of mind.