“Patrick Alston: Apertures” is now on exhibit at Heather Gaudio Fine Art on Greenwich Avenue in Greenwich.
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This is Alston’s first solo exhibit and features the signature vocabulary of the artist that focuses on a visual exploration of gesture and color. The exhibit explores perception as both collectively shared and intimately, shaped by layered marks, color, and gestures that carry echoes of time, choice, and revision.
Alston’s process begins with openness and chance. Initial washes flow freely across the canvas with no predetermined image, guided by instinct rather than plan. From this fluid, uncertain state, the work gradually evolves through repeated addition, obscuring, and adjustment of marks until moments of clarity emerge. This back-and-forth between randomness and intention reflects core aspects of human life that people enter the world without control over starting conditions and are shaped by external forces and circumstances. As people navigate life, they negotiate and reshape those conditions. Each work parallels the life of an individual that develops over time yet contained within a fixed span.
The artist created colorful, wheeled stools for the exhibition, allowing viewers to comfortably sit and linger in front of any painting for as long as they wish. This setup invites audiences to reflect on both the unique specificity of their own perspective and the possibility of shared experience beyond it.
The show runs through Saturday June 13.
