JOEL GAILER
Abstract edge #1, 2020
acrylic oil and gouache on linen
66 x 51 cm
Joel Gailer, Finding the edge in painting.
JOEL GAILER
Finding the edge in painting.
Throughout my art life I’ve had an ideological opposition to painting. This is because when I first studied art, the old genre hierarchies still existed and painting, as always, was at the apex. For me, this was an authority that needed to be resisted, because the painting tradition offered very few new ideas and seemed to be the antithesis of progression. After 20 years of avoiding painting, I began painting again.
Through an intuitive process of making and a research driven investigation into the emergence of Abstraction, I kept asking myself, what in the medium of painting offers an artist a relatively fertile arena to express themselves? The edge emerged as a site, for me, to explore a small facet of painting. While many have come before me, the edge represents a vanguard for self-expression in the most dominant mode of artistic practice. So I reduced my painting method to the edge of the canvas and sometimes the paint came off it! Freeing the paint completely from the canvas. The material became the meaning.
When I consider a medium I try to comprehend its material and conceptual meaning. Marshal McLuhan said, “the medium is the message”, this statement, in my opinion, is still an apt cipher to understand the affect new and old media is capable of conveying.
What is an edge? Is it a border? Is it a precipice? Is it an abyss? Is it a division between one reality and another?
In simplicity I find the most complex nuance and the edge, for me, represents a significant arena to explore difficult metaphors and light-hearted analogies.
Joel Gailer- 2020
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JOEL GAILER
Abstract edge #2, 2019
acrylic and raw pigment on linen
33 x 20 cm
JOEL GAILER
Abstract edge #3, 2019
acrylic and raw pigment on linen
33 x 23 cm
JOEL GAILER
Abstract edge #4, 2019
acrylic and raw pigment on linen
32 x 39 cm
JOEL GAILER
Abstract edge #5, 2019
acrylic and raw pigment on linen
32 x 25 cm
SOLD
JOEL GAILER
Abstract edge #6 inverse, 2019
acrylic oil and gouache on linen
50 x 91 cm
JOEL GAILER
Abstract edge #7, 2019
acrylic and raw pigment on linen
110 x 50 cm
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Deep edge #1, 2019
acrylic oil and gouache on linen
27 x 25 cm
JOEL GAILER
Deep edge #2, 2019
acrylic oil and gouache on linen
28 x 26 cm
JOEL GAILER
Deep edge #1, 2019
acrylic oil and gouache on linen
27 x 25 cm
JOEL GAILER
Diptych (Blue edge), 2019
oil and acrylic on linen
30.5 x 25.5 cm
JOEL GAILER
Intermedia madness III, 2019
acrylic oil and gouache
50 x 38 cm
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Intermedia madness IV, 2019
acrylic oil and gouache on linen
50 x 38 cm
JOEL GAILER
Intermedia madness V, 2019
acrylic oil and gouache on linen, paper, framed
50 x 38 cm
JOEL GAILER
Intermedia madness, Yellow Peril, 2019
acrylic and oil gouache on linen
50 x 38 cm
JOEL GAILER
Interstitial #2, 2019
acrylic, linen, frame
20 x 15 cm
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Interstitial #3, 2019
acrylic, canvas, frame
27 x 14 cm
JOEL GAILER
Interstitial #4, 2019
acrylic on canvas on linen
58 x 17 cm
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Primed edge #1, 2019
acrylic oil and gouache
21 x 13 cm
JOEL GAILER
Interstitial #1, 2019
acrylic, canvas
30 x 21 x 4 cm
JOEL GAILER
Interdisciplanetary painting #1, 2019
acrylic and oil on steel armature on marble base
22 x 10.5 x 10.5 cm
JOEL GAILER
Primed edge #2, 2019
acrylic and oil gouache on linen
20 x 13 cm
JOEL GAILER
Primed edge #3, 2019
acrylic oil and gouache on canvas
20 x 13 cm
SOLD
JOEL GAILER
Shallow edge #1, 2020
acrylic oil and gouache on linen
31 x 32.5 cm
JOEL GAILER
Interdisciplanetary painting #2, 2019
acrylic and oil on steel armature on marble base
21 x 10.5 x 10.5 cm
JOEL GAILER
The precarious conclusions of medium specificity #1, 2019
acrylic oil and gouache on linen
37 x 46 cm
JOEL GAILER
The precarious conclusions of medium specificity #2 (diptych), 2019
acrylic oil and gouache on linen
33 x 40 cm
JOEL GAILER
Interdisciplanetary painting #3, 2019
acrylic and oil on steel armature on marble base
20 x 10.5 x 10.5 cm
JOEL GAILER
Interdisciplanetary painting #4, 2019
acrylic and oil on steel armature on marble base
21 x 10.5 x 10.5 cm
SOLD
JOEL GAILER
Interdisciplanetary painting #5, 2019
acrylic and oil on steel armature on marble base
19 x 10.5 x 10.5 cm
JOEL GAILER
Interdisciplanetary painting #6, 2019
acrylic and oil on steel armature on marble base
24 x 10.5 x 10.5 cm
JOEL GAILER
Interdisciplanetary painting #7, 2019
acrylic and oil on steel armature on marble base
28 x 10.5 x 10.5 cm
JOEL GAILER
Interdisciplanetary painting #8, 2019
acrylic and oil on steel armature on marble base
26 x 10.5 x 10.5 cm
JOEL GAILER
Interdisciplanetary painting #9, 2019
acrylic and oil on steel armature on marble base
25 x 10.5 x 10.5 cm
JOEL GAILER
Interdisciplanetary painting #10, 2019
acrylic and oil on steel armature on marble base
29 x 10.5 x 10.5 cm
SOLD