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Working from an intuitive base, yet informed by years of experimentation as a painter, knowledgeculled from widespread readings, and the immediacy of the unpredictable experiences that characterizepost-Katrina New Orleans, Doyle Gertjejansen has produced a series of highly energized paintings that areimbued with gritty pictorial muscle and expressive of timely metaphors. Having long ago adopted thebelief that there is essentially one pictorial language—which is inclusive of abstract and representationalas well as familiar and unfamiliar imagery—Gertjejansen begins each painting with a simple, arbitraryconfiguration and then, additively, transforms it into something compelling and meaningful. InGertjejansen’s hands, a serene appropriation of Mount Fuji becomes engulfed by the centrifugal motionof swirling brush gestures that hurl through space like fragments of ripped-apart earth ignited by anexplosion. Similarly, disks of a color wheel struggle to be perceived from within a densely populated fieldof compacted undulating abstract organisms. Though never literal in a narrative sense, the paintingsconvey a metaphoric outcry about struggle for survival, bringing to mind not only the upheavals of a citymutated by the shock of Katrina, but of the multiple instabilities—political as well as environmental—thathave thus far defined the initial decade of the twenty-first century.

David S. RubinThe Brown Foundation Curator of Contemporary ArtSan Antonio Museum of Art

DOYLE GERTJEJANSEN

Recent Paintings

Exhibition dates: October 5th – November 30th, 2006

Color Theory, acrylic on canvas, 30" x 30", 2006

Front Cover: Domino Theory 10, acrylic on canvas, 60" x 84", 2006

Second Self, acrylic on canvas, 48" x 60", 2006

Brushstrokes, Mountain, Table, Anchor, Navel, Pour, acrylic on canvas, 48" x 48", 2006

Pandora, acrylic on canvas, 26" x 36", 2006

The Great Wave 2 acrylic on canvas, 36" x 30", 2006

518 JULIA STREET, NEW ORLEANS, LA 70130

504.525.0518 www.gallerybienvenu.com

Not Ones and Zeros 2, acrylic on canvas, 60" x 60"

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