Oehlen

Limited to 1,000 numbered copies, each signed by Albert Oehlen.

Often wryly funny and just as smart, Albert Oehlen s paintings play the medium for all it s worth and then some. After realizing that the so-called death of painting freed him to explore the number of aspects through which one could expand painting, Oehlen started work on a wide variety of figurative and non-objective offerings, in what he has called his post-non-figurative art. The artist continuously challenges himself, setting up rules that force him to overcome convention and his own routine in order to arrive at a satisfying image. During his career he has chosen to paint in primary colors only or in gray, to integrate mirrors into his canvases, or to start on computer paintings when the first PCs became available. In his most recent work Oehlen expands painting through the use of advertising posters whose in-your-face aesthetics he transforms with subtle brushwork. Never without a touch of tongue-in-cheek humor, his work seems to be winking at us as it dares us to change the way we perceive an image.