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Fred Fowler Exhibition | Jan Murphy Gallery
August 27, 2024 - September 14, 2024
Fred Fowler’s paintings build up a symbolic order through a type of painterly wordplay. His paintings find delight in disguise: doors, vessels, creatures, and nature recur throughout these works, evoking a sense of place, concealment, and transformation. These tropes suggest unseen truths, carried into being by illusory landscapes – but the symbols are all we see. Fowler’s new work builds up imagery in layered constructions that repeatedly reorient the picture plane, resulting in seemingly floating compositions. Painted onto hard boards, on which the artist builds and conceals layers of colour and symbols, the works become compelling tableaus, revealing new layers of meaning behind every surface.
