Warren Isensee

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WARREN ISENSEE                                                                        FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
New Work

March 19 – April 17, 2010
Opening Reception: March 18, 6-8 PM

Danese is pleased to announce an exhibition of new works by Warren Isensee. The opening reception will be held Thursday, March 18th from 6 to 8 PM.

Warren Isensee’s current paintings and drawings continue to present luminous, emotionally and optically charged color within a formal system of geometric abstraction. The paintings’ ordered striations of line and color imply the condition of architecture and three dimensions, signaling “a vital presence…and the ability of a configuration to command its own space.” Taken a step further however, certain of his large-scale paintings – Cakewalk for instance – slant, tilt, combine and assemble, to form single works from multiple elements, defining and activating the environment in which they perform. At once ordered and expansive, these arrangements shift perspective, as the viewer becomes immersed within the choreographed passages of exultant color and dynamic scale.

Rendered with precision but without tape, Isensee’s paintings and drawings are leavened by the intervention of the hand-drawn and painted line. As the artist has said in the past: “The goal has always been to achieve a certain level of perfect, approaching what could be achieved mechanically, but instead is crafted by hand.” 

Born in Asheville, North Carolina in 1956, Isensee studied architecture at the University of Oklahoma and subsequently majored in painting and graphic design. Isensee was included in the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts and received a Purchase Award. He received the Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant in 1999 and has exhibited extensively in the United States and is included in the collections of the Blanton Museum, Austin, TX and the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY, among others. He works in New York City where he lives with his wife and two children.

The exhibition is accompanied by an online catalogue, which can be found at www.danese.com. For further information, please contact Carol Corey or Alexandra Woodworth at 212/223-2227.