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On September 8, 2007, Orange County-based artist Jimi Gleason will unveil his most ambitious work to date: two massive works on opposing gallery walls, bracketing the gallery with his signature color-field abstractions. Working with acrylic on canvas, Gleason engages in what he calls “visual problem solving”—the establishment of an environment (the problem) within which balance and form create a harmony (the solution). Visually, this process plays out in a naturalistic movement of iridescent elements to and from the edges of the canvas, evoking severe landscapes photographed from high altitudes or the mutable, viscous appearance of melting matter.
As with Gleason’s earlier work, these pieces possess a strict architecture of color and form, but it is the artist’s organic process of shaping the paint that leads to a striking finished product: powerfully transcendental works of gestural abstraction that provide a meditative focal point on any wall. The sheer size of his new work establishes an uncharted territory for Gleason—one in which the highly personal reflective state of the work is impressed upon the shared forum of the public space. Gleason’s work is included in such notable public collections as the Frederick Weisman Museum Collection in Malibu and the Eli Broad/Sun America Collection.
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