Underdonk

Substrates of Action is an exhibition which brings together paintings and drawings by three artists whose work engages with legibility of language through gesture and exaggeration. Each independently layer by using mark and form, intersecting at the point of suggestion and withholding.

Andrew Prayzner’s paintings display variations of text and writing-like script that simultaneously hover above and are embedded within the image plane whether that be of a red curtain or a still life with flowers. The drawings of Kalina Winters include segmented and exaggerated figures that fill the surface and are often displayed stacked. The arrangements obscure legibility, and the emotive expressions and poses evoke territories of body language and dysmorphic possibilities.

Rosaire Appel has included a selection of drawings that delve into what it is to mimic action on a two-dimensional surface. Drawings from her “Remedial Reading” series refer to the experience of what happens with the eyes while reading in private. Her drawings from her “Accounting for Nothing” series contain inked marks on vintage ledger paper that could be read as shorthand yet proclaim to account for themselves and nothing else.Appel’s work asks, “isn’t there more to reading than words?”

Andrew Prayzner is a painter based in Brooklyn, NY. He holds an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania, and a BFA from the University of Hartford and is a two time resident at Yaddo. Andrew has exhibited nationally and internationally for over twenty years. Group exhibitions include the Aldrich Museum (Ridgefield, CT), SFA Projects, (New York, NY), Housatonic Museum of Art (Bridgeport, CT), The Wassaic Project (Wassaic, NY) and Scotty Projects (Berlin, Germany). In the summer of 2015, Andrew was a resident at Studio Kura in Fukuoka, Japan. He concluded the residency with a solo exhibition of nocturnal drawings titled One Hundred Views of Nothing. In 2016 a solo exhibition titled Horizontals was presented in the project space at Morgan Lehman (New York, NY).