Full Moon

Platform Project Space is pleased to present Full Moon, an exhibition of recent works on canvas by Lauriston Avery that expand on his otherworldly body of paintings.

Formed from pared-down materials such as construction adhesive and gesso, these works rely on the subtlety of white, muted hues, texture, light and shadow to express ghostly visages that are at once matter of fact and ethereal. Tightly compressed passages interwoven with structural and rhythmic line interplay over scarred psychic fields where super-sensory, celestial-like figures manifest in material substance and recede into abstraction.

 For Avery, this practice can be interpreted as conjuring. With an abandon that always seems to court calamity, alternating between feverishly building and impulsively excavating, Avery champions intuition as an interface with the metaphysical. His obsessive process and transmutation of material on the picture plane summons that which exists behind the veil. Here, shimmering between the fantastical and the objective, Avery draws upon his attraction to the mystical and esoteric, where the laws governing what is visible are influenced by what is not.

Lauriston Avery was born in 1968 in Norwich, CT. He received his BFA in painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art and the San Francisco Art Institute. Avery has lived and worked in New York City since 1991. Recent solo and group exhibitions include shows in New York, Miami and Dusseldorf, Germany.  

Platform Project Space, located at 20 Jay Street #319, Brooklyn, NY is open Saturdays 12-6PM by appointment. Masks Required. For more information, please contact info@platformprojectspace.com or call (917) 494-7595.