Frank Ammerlaan

Untitled . 2012

Frank Ammerlaan . + Upstream Gallery

“To Be” is a form of disappointment, it can be considered a static concept, a hollow fiction. The edge is more affecting than the central, the periphery seems to be attuned to changes in form and content. Beyond the center is where we search for the unknown, where we perform our curiosity for the future.
Ammerlaan’s large, dark oil paintings bear subtle looming color spots embroided with shiny, fluorescent threads. The shift between figure and ground in the work runs parallel with the development between central to periphery, the thread plays an active protagonist that structures this painted ground.
Upstream Gallery