These two exhibitions at Occurrence are both architecture-heavy. It is an interesting juxtaposition with each set suggesting something quite different, not necessarily complementary. Noémie Weinstein, Solariums A set of paintings, they are controlled exercises in clashing modes of abstraction knit together through a clear set of intersecting parts that each offer a different mode of painterly articulation. Based on found and personal source material, these images are readily legible as solariums and other spaces where wet and light intersect, rich in patterning. Instantly, deliberate or not, in terms of imagery and colour scheme, Weinstein’s warm-cool graded paintings are reminiscent of the aesthetics associated with vaporwave and comparable slightly melancholy nostalgia nods to the 1980s. Thematically, Weinstein’s suite of images deals with the threshold where interior and exterior meet. This is done in a lot of very blatant ways. Almost everything in her figurative select...
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