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HALSEY MCKAY is pleased to present its first solo exhibition with San Francisco-based painter Joey Piziali. Piziali pushes the visual information to the exterior, forming vacuous white voids.
Glowing rather than empty, these works originally developed from testing the spray of airbrush while working on other paintings. The arbitrary marks became formal exercises that also act as a convincing light source. Their meditative nature reflects the flow of the artist in studio, a memento of the conditions under which such happy accidents occur. Without and End In Sight, marks the first time a room full of Piziali’s Edge works, fully refined, have been installed separated from other modes of his painting practice.
While the installation draws an immediate connection to the Light and Space movement of 1960’s California, its analogue nature keeps the practice of painting at its crux. As pigment hits the tooth of the canvas a “pixelaization” occurs that recalls today’s digital imagery yet further reminds us that the objects are paintings, rather products of engineered manipulation. The perceptual phenomenon of these works is no less effective than the their ancestors – as the room appears to sway and pulse.
Joey Piziali lives and works in San Francisco, CA. He has a MFA from the Art Institute of San Francisco and a BS from the University of Colorado, Boulder. Recent solo exhibitions have been at Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco, Smith Andersen Gallery, Paolo Alto and Collectors Contemporary in Singapore. Recent group exhibitions include at the Bronx River Arts Center, Baer Ridgway Exhibitions, SF, Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose and Scion Installation Space in Los Angeles. Piziali is an Artadia Award finalist and an SFAI Fellow.