Eric LoPresti at Like The Spice, Brooklyn, USA, May 16th - Jun 8th

LoPresti's work has been exhibited internationally, including solo shows at Jan Larson Fine Art and Miami University. He is the recipient of the Louis J. Kuriansky Foundation Award and the 2005 Miami Young Painters, William and Dorothy Yeck Purchase Award.

Eric LoPresti's first solo show and current exhibition at Like The Spice gallery in Brooklyn, New York, is titled Force Against Force. It features his eloquent diptychs which have been composed with photorealistic renderings and airbrushed gradients. Within each binary pairing, executed in either graphite or oil and acrylic, are uncontrollable forces and the universality of conflict and catastrophic loss.

These precisely realized images of destruction, danger and chaos on one panel are set against the contemplative psychological space of color field painting, thereby combining two schools of painting historically seen as antagonistic to each other. The artist bases his works on dramatic and sometimes harrowing photographs of contemporary battlegrounds in Iraq and the Democratic Republic of Congo, and also sites of danger and turmoil --- shark infested waters, melting icebergs and refugee camps...

LoPresti's paintings and drawings express the inadequacy of human perception to grasp the vast, shapeless complexities of powerful forces. The opposing realm of each landscape is an abstract gradient, where multiple colors or tones fade into one another in atmospheric, emotionally charged fields, providing an open space into which the viewer can project their reactions and emotions.

Eric LoPresti explains about the diptychs, "I think of them as visual equations, where the resulting experience is very different than the sum of the parts. Each side transforms the other by its proximity." 

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