LAGSTEIN GALLERY
Jan 12 - Feb 9nJannJjJ
​ Human Error
"Human Error" is a two-person exhibition showcasing the paintings of Nyack artists Brian Hart and Ilsa Bouyoucos. The tiny slips and missteps in repetitive tasks imbue a sense of humanity in works that could otherwise come across as sterile, as both artists start their paintings with a set of rules or matrices to be followed in completing the work. Hart's work borrows from his printmaking background to interpret digitally created color separations into hand-painted canvases. Bouyoucos's brightly colored works involve complex extrapolations and variations of intense color palettes in a series of related and sometimes conjoined paintings. In the process of creating their work, both artists operate with a looseness that allows the physicality of the paint to highlight the handmade nature of the pieces. Often working in series, the exploratory nature of their work is emphasized by shifting variables of size, medium, and process. The individual pieces serve both as studies and finished works in each artist's ever-branching vocabulary of creation.
Brian Richard Hart
My work encompasses printmaking, painting and large scale murals, but recently I have been focusing on image making using CMYK color separation techniques to depict the human form. Mimicking the aesthetics of silkscreen while painting images by hand, I am able to gain more influence on the finished images while also creating a tension between the mechanical and personal nature of the artwork. Imagery, sourced diversely, is fed through this same process, broken down, rescaled and recombined. As layers of information accumulate, paintings evolve and near abstraction. Revealing themselves sometimes only by forcing the viewer closer or further away.
Brian Richard Hart
Ilsa Bouyoucos
I've always found color relationships to be incredibly fascinating, and
my paintings are the result of the colors I chose at the time, mixed
with my insatiable curiosity for how colors effect one another.
Integrating outside textural elements invites the idea of chaos, but if
the colors are balanced, then the chaos is neutralized. On the other
end, what appears to be a simple grid with a colorful pattern, may
invoke more of a visceral response, or jostle the senses. I love
experimenting with different colors and how their interactions can
change the way they are perceived; a blue turns into a convincing
purple if the right green is nearby, an unexciting hue taking center
stage due to its other colors. What’s most exciting to me is knowing
how much I haven't discovered yet, and this is the joy I wish to share
with others.
