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Hoffman Donahue is pleased to present a solo exhibition of work by Sydney Acosta. Textured, visceral, and direct, these works maintain a strictly rigid color palette. Her saturated reds and greens, concentrated whites and blacks avoid realism and instead function as symbols for emotional immediacy. These paintings emerge from the night, the street, the club, the present.
Needing to stand on art history is out. The present tense is in. These lines in Acosta’s painting manifesto cut to the heart of her project. At odds with the slow pace of oil painting, Acosta pushes her medium to achieve a swift communication usually reserved for drawings. Often working with a dry brush and very little solvent, she emulates the texture of charcoal scribbled on paper. Ephemerality and permanence coexist, with ancient religious motifs alongside memories from yesterday. Acosta is clear that despite ritualistic references in her work, she is not interested in the transcendent. Rather, the city, the…
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Hoffman Donahue is pleased to present a solo exhibition of work by Sydney Acosta. Textured, visceral, and direct, these works maintain a strictly rigid color palette. Her saturated reds and greens, concentrated whites and blacks avoid realism and instead function as symbols for emotional immediacy. These paintings emerge from the night, the street, the club, the present.
Needing to stand on art history is out. The present tense is in. These lines in Acosta’s painting manifesto cut to the heart of her project. At odds with the slow pace of oil painting, Acosta pushes her medium to achieve a swift communication usually reserved for drawings. Often working with a dry brush and very little solvent, she emulates the texture of charcoal scribbled on paper. Ephemerality and permanence coexist, with ancient religious motifs alongside memories from yesterday. Acosta is clear that despite ritualistic references in her work, she is not interested in the transcendent. Rather, the city, the…
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