The gallery is delighted to present a two-artist exhibition of paintings by New York based artists Visakh Menon and Christopher Saunders.  Menon’s acrylic on panel paintings are joined by small scale oil paintings on linen by Saunders.  The artists share a common exploration of repetition, line, and color.

Visakh Menon’s labor intensive abstract paintings are inspired by glitched images of photographic scenes and video. Menon is interested in the relationship between technology and painting.  Working entirely by hand, the artist adds layers of fine lines and sections of paint into overlapping planes marked by blurred sections of color and shifting lines in varying densities.  His square panels call to mind early computer monitors, cityscapes, and corrupted images that are repeatedly overlaid and compressed.

Christopher Saunders shares Menon’s interest in repetition, minimalism, and digital space.  His paintings refer as much to repeated horizon lines in an actual landscape as they do to atmospheric fragments captured on screen and in print.  In this new series of small paintings, Saunders focuses on repetitive hues which he varies in tonal gradients across the surface.  Like Menon, Saunders relies on precise lines to demarcate his surfaces.  His horizontal strokes of black suggest repeated horizons and tidelines that parse atmospheric fades of subtle color.