Natural Selection
TRAM BUI, DAN GUALDONI, BILL HUDDERS,
MARY IVERSON, TIMOTHY TOMPKINS

June 3 - July 2, 2005

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Tram Bui
Dan Gualdoni
Mary Iverson

Although firmly rooted in representation, the artists in Natural Selection possess a shared interest in abstraction; or, rather, they are more concerned with the formal qualities of their paintings than the faithful representation of their subject. Yet each is a gifted draughtsman who uses the language of literal depiction of landscape or architecture to make a visual statement.

TRAM BUI

Tram Bui’s dichromatic silhouettes of buildings covered with scaffolding speak of the process of painting as construction. The resulting images, hard edged and spare, are a study in color and composition, though the subject is immediately identifiable and faithfully reproduced. A 2001 University of Washington MFA graduate, Bui exhibited the 2004 Tacoma Art Museum Biennial, Buildingwise.

Tram Bui

9th
2005, oil on panel (triptych)
each 24 x 24 inches
SOLD

Tram Bui

45th
2005, oil on panel (triptych)
each 24 x 24 inches

Tram Bui

Alaskan
2005, oil on panel
24 x 24 inches

Tram Bui

Jackson
2005, oil on panel
36 x 48 inches
SOLD

Tram Bui

Harrison
2005, oil on panel
24 x 24 inches
SOLD

DAN GUALDONI

Dan Gualdoni’s current series of meditative cloud-filled skies was inspired by the west coast of Ireland during his 2003 Ballinglen residency. Utilizing little or no horizon line, Gualdoni’s paintings focus on the nebulous space defined by clouds and light and in doing so approach pure abstraction. A resident of St. Louis, Gualdoni has exhibited extensively throughout the U.S.

Dan Gualdoni

Aer-Eire Series #14
2003, mixed media on panel
14 x 11 inches
SOLD

Dan Gualdoni

Aer-Eire Series #16
2003, mixed media on panel
14 x 11 inches

Dan Gualdoni

Aer-Eire Series #17
2003, mixed media on panel
14 x 11 inches
SOLD

Dan Gualdoni

Aer-Eire Series #7
2003, mixed media on panel
11 x 8 inches

Dan Gualdoni

Aer-Eire Series #8
2003, mixed media on panel
11 x 8 inches

Dan Gualdoni

Aer-Eire Series #86
2005, mixed media on panel
17 x 15 inches
SOLD

Dan Gualdoni

Aer-Eire Series #87
2005, mixed media on panel
17 x 15 inches
SOLD

Dan Gualdoni

Aer-Eire Series #55
2004, mixed media on panel
10 3/4 x 9 7/8 inches

Dan Gualdoni

Aer-Eire Series #56
2004, mixed media on panel
10 3/4 x 9 7/8 inches

BILL HUDDERS

Splitting time between Brooklyn and rural Penn-sylvania, Bill Hudders’ work naturally floats from cityscape to landscape. Regardless of subject matter, his interest lies in the structure of his paintings, constructing tree branches with the same methodical approach he uses to describe buildings. His work employs a frugal, well-informed brushstroke, bringing to mind the still lifes of Morandi. In July, Hudders’ paintings will be reproduced in the Nora Ephron film Bewitched, starring Nicole Kidman.

Bill Hudders

Summer Landscape II
2002, oil on canvas
20 x 24 inches

Bill Hudders

Manhattan Landscape
1997, oil on canvas
12 x 15 inches

Bill Hudders

Two Trees (Cornwall, CT)
2001, oil on canvas
20 x 18 inches

Bill Hudders

Afternoon Pine (Yaddo)
1998, oil on canvas
21 x 19 inches

Bill Hudders

Snow Tree
2004, oil on panel
20 x 19 inches

MARY IVERSON

Mary Iverson has long possessed a fascination for the port of Seattle, beginning with plein air studies of its cranes and gradually evolving to her current paintings which focus more on shipping containers. Stylistically, she reduces the container terminal to a complex network of overlapping planes and construction lines in dramatic perspective. Conceptually, her work deals with issues of accumulation, industry, time and ambiguity. Iverson received an MFA in painting from the University of Washington and a BFA in Design from Cornish College of the Arts.

Mary Iverson

Red Poles
2005, oil and graphite on canvas
60 x 80 inches
SOLD

Mary Iverson

Container Ship 2
2004, oil on canvas
24 x 36 inches
SOLD

Mary Iverson

Containers 2
2005, oil and graphite on canvas
30 x 30 inches
SOLD

Mary Iverson

Cranes with Containers
2005, oil on canvas
30 x 40 inches

Mary Iverson

Containers
2005, oil and graphite on canvas
74 x 80 inches

Mary Iverson

Container Ship 3
2004, oil on canvas
22 x 36 inches

TIMOTHY TOMPKINS

Timothy Tompkins’ paintings are a metaphor for his LA surroundings: the imagery, scenes of ordinary markets and buildings, is simultaneously hyper-real and manufactured. The images begin as photographs that are intentionally blurred, simplified, and then translated by hand into high gloss enamel on aluminum. His surfaces are lush with paint and smooth texture and as the paintings fade from focus the patchwork of brushstrokes become patterns of color and shapes. In 2003, his work was seen in the 18th exhibition of New American Talent curated by Dominic Molon (Associate Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago). This exhibition marks Tompkins’ debut in Seattle.

Timothy Tompkins

Samsung, Noon Effect
2004, commercial sign enamel on aluminum
63 x 43 inches

Timothy Tompkins

Target Lawn & Garden - Top Performing Flowers
2004, commercial sign enamel
on aluminum, 36 x 24 inches

Timothy Tompkins

Target Lawn & Garden - Garden Made
2004, commercial sign enamel
on aluminum, 24 x 36 inches