River’s Edge / Solo Exhibition by
DEBRA DREXLER
Van Der Plas Gallery, 156 Orchard St
New York, New York 10002
October 23 – November 15, 2015
Opening Reception Friday, October 23rd, 6 – 8 PM
Debra Drexler maintains studios in both New York and Oahu, and her work is informed by her unique bi-coastal experience. In her luminous, large-scale abstract paintings, she brings the transcendent experience of the Hawaiian landscape to a New York audience. Her juxtaposition of high chroma blues, violets, yellows and pinks create a spatial opening, leading the viewer to a poesis of expansive experience. Through her New York based studio and curatorial practices, she is also deeply engaged in critical conversation surrounding new abstraction. She states “Abstraction takes us to a state of timelessness that is primal in its humanity, disconnecting us momentarily from the mediated “now” of our electronic devices, and connecting us to a “now” that gives us a glimpse of the infinite. While our insistent digital projections can take us away from both our animal and spiritual nature, abstract painting reminds us again of what it means to be human. The corporality of the paint mirrors the flesh of the body and transports us into the timeless.” Drexler’s radiant paintings take us to the River’s Edge, where we can enter the painting and flow into the sublime.
Read more about Debra in THE ANGLE and STRUCTURE AND IMAGE.
Top: Drexler in her Brooklyn Studio. 2015 (credit: Paul Behnke)
Bottom: Blue S Curve, oil on canvas, 48” x 50”. 2015