Something always lies beyond a wall . . .

Group Show

January 4-March 2, 2019

 

Something always lies beyond a wall. . . Eugene Von Bruenchenhein

 

Eugene Von Bruenchenhein relished incorporating quasi-popular scientific theory as background for his creative process.  Never substantiated by fact, he relied on his self-taught instincts and imagination to provide him with material and ideas about which his paintings seem relentless in exploring.  So too, the beauty and the strength of any piece of artwork relies on similar principles of “seeing” and “understanding” the world around us.  This group show of Carl Hammer Gallery artists demonstrates this “scratching of the surface” notion in paying homage to the Bruenchenhein theory that wehave only looked in the mirror, not [at] what is concealed behind