Dan Gluibizzi
In the month of September, the gallery is pleased to present A coupled search by gallery artist Dan Gluibizzi. Gluibizzi’s paintings on paper are meditations on our image-saturated digital worlds. Gluibizzi’s analog rendering of online content employs line, repetition, and subtle washes to transform the mundane into the charmingly uncanny. Distilled couples navigate the uncertainty of the future while celebrating the beautifully complex search for connections as we face the world. He creates works that are often hand-cut, and break the boundaries of traditionally framed spaces. His watercolors concentrate on the human form, face and condition, often culled from the amateur/selfie-sourced Internet. Voyeuristic yet somehow innocent, they have a warm and playful feel. Gluibizzi notes that “I look for repetition both in the images I collect and the images I make. We all take the same pictures, wear the same clothes, smile, frown, and kiss in the same ways. I want to draw this beauty I find to be both unique and uniform. There is more blending of my interests in archiving collected images in the collaged space along with my impulse for narrative.”
A nude figure rendered in an ochre ombré wash points skyward, while another depicted in lavender and pear-green rests their weight on their left hip, an undergarment suspended just below their knees. From a distance, Dan Gluibizzi’s watercolors depict colorful portraits against monochrome or soft, variegated grounds. Closer inspection, however, reveals that the figures are engaged in a tender exchange of banal, intimate, and sexually explicit gestures.