La Petite Mort Gallery

La Petite Mort Gallery presentsADAM J. ANSELL / New Paintings
FASHIONABLY LATE

August 17-23, 2012
Vernissage Friday Aug 17 / 7 – 10pm
Tunes by BIG MAC DADDY
Proudly sponsored by CKCU 93.1 FM

Fashionably Late
“The party is in full swing, and look who finally saunters in: bad- ass party girls and over-dressed men-about-town. Enter: sophisticated ladies and messy divas. The perfect time to arrive: gorgeous noble low-lifes and loud-mouthed trouble-makers.

That’s a really good look on you! Up-tight ass holes and invisible dumb-shits, hurry up! Floozies are stumbling in. Flirty wall-flowers, optimistic twinkle-toes who are totally freaked-out. I can’t believe it! Back-stabbers chatting up stubborn pill-popping crusty stink-pots, burping and gesturing and running amok. Hi, how are you? Fine, how are you? Here comes the cute and popular born-again high school hookers. Now who shows up? Gangster bitches and sassy-pants . Grandma’s had one too many. Sorry I’m late”.

ADAM J. ANSELL / San Francisco
- The daring paintings of Adam J. Ansell take the viewer into a bizarre and bold-colored world that may be identifiable, yet not the same for each person. Adam instinctually uses his initial color field to dictate who and what is to be coaxed out of the paint. He responds impulsively to each colored mark and exaggerated tone, consciously keeping alive the natural element of chance. After the latex paint accumulates on the wood to it’s required texture, and the melting outlines begin to take shape, Adam reduces the subject matter, which forever lives underneath the painting’s background- infusing the flat areas with explosive underlying energy and matter, and sustaining the life of the primary subject.

The expressionistic works are finally glazed with a glossy acrylic finish, which accentuates the richness of color, and density of each painting. Adam’s edgy high fashion paintings are filled with contradictions: interior and exterior, passionate and empty, rugged and delicate, improvisational and meditational, spontaneous and labored, stark and festive.