New York, NY -- Westwood Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition for artist Michael DesRosiers from September 17th through October 16th, 2010. The mixed media paintings on canvas represent the artist’s exploration utilizing an innovative medium. Sixteen abstract paintings are on view in three sizes. The artist’s process and methodology involves painting on transparent paper which is applied to the canvas in several layers. Each step is delicate, yet integrated and requires the paintings to be flat and cradled in a wooden boxl... Read more

New York, NY — Westwood Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition for artist Michael DesRosiers from September 17th through October 16th, 2010. The mixed media paintings on canvas represent the artist’s exploration utilizing an innovative medium. Sixteen abstract paintings are on view in three sizes. The artist’s process and methodology involves painting on transparent paper which is applied to the canvas in several layers. Each step is delicate, yet integrated and requires the paintings to be flat and cradled in a wooden boxlike tray, allowing the paint to drip on the sides of the canvas. The title of each painting hints to the importance of transformation, verbal into visual, as well as the permanent focus on color (i.e., Cadmium Attraction to an Ebonized Generation of a Titanium, or Threaded Black Through a Suppressed Reciprocation).

The basis of this line of creative investigation is how a specific set of operative circumstances can be revisited time after time yielding unique artifacts within that defined reality of replication. The basis of this embrace, a search for the underpinnings of our new shared mechanical consciousness, can for me be rendered simply as positive versus negative, obscurity versus revelation, light versus dark, or silhouette versus interior content. Michael DesRosiers

Richard Fisher elaborates in the catalogue essay on Mr. DesRosiers’ creative practice: “Mr. DesRosiers’ approach to making a painting mirrors the manner in which he cleverly uses words to manifest verbal communication. He likens his collage + painting technique to woodblock printing. He gathers disparate pieces of visual information—-all varieties of natural and manmade phenomena—-and melds them into a unified presentation. The paintings are edited and repainted many times on both opaque and transparent papers. Thereafter, the hand-painted large format prints are layered and burnished onto a large canvas whose thick edge records both the painting and the burnishing process.”