Cris Worley Fine Arts is pleased to announce our upcoming two-person exhibition Paul Winker & Jan van der Ploeg. The exhibition will open with a reception on Saturday, August 26th, from 5-8 pm, and will run through September 30th. The gallery will host a conversation between the artists on Saturday, August 26th at 4pm. The event is free and open to the public.

Bestowing deep attention onto an object in an activated visual capacity will cast repeat viewings with a transactional yet vivid spell. Everyday commerce and unfeeling nostalgia work their desire lines around the interiors of rooms. Vaguely commercial displays exit makeshift assembly lines built with a particular yet open intent.

A common visual cue devised for utility’s ease pushes the lozenge and blip into a framework for experimentation and intuition in the works on canvas of Jan van der Ploeg. Application of color registers and skids across the prescribed format, a candid acknowledgement of the process and accident from one painting into the next.

For this exhibition, Paul Winker devised plans for his paintings by pursuing an almost monastic-like devotion to the unforeseen details of everyday life. The folds of a beloved’s blouse, a security-lined envelope, the detailing of a cereal box, a cartooned comforter. Cropped compositions blown up and rendered with precise, traced templates laid down upon the base ground. Flipping our expectations back and forth between illusory and flat formulations, altogether wily patterns amidst droll color combos. An all-consuming heat of looking, cooling into a condensed register, ready to be received anew yet again.

This late summer nexus found its beginnings in the spring a year before, with the Texan assisting the Dutchman with site specific wall paintings for the Dallas Art Fair. A camaraderie was struck, a conversation pursued, which ultimately resulted in the overlapping of dialogue via convergent forms seen here in the adjoining galleries.

Van der Ploeg’s geometric wall paintings reach back into the framework of modernist forebears, echoing graphic displays and pulling the viewer into a bold backdrop for active collaboration and conversation alike.

Oftentimes, one only needs such a platform to open up the room to new ideas that borrow and build on backstory, and what is hinted at in the details glimpsed in the paintings of both artists.

Ripe with both creative attention and deliberate execution, we share the collaborative, open spirit illuminated in the work of both artists presented here in Paul Winker & Jan van der Ploeg as the endless possibility of discovery and renewal from inspiration to resolution, standalone work to juxtaposition, artist to viewer.