For Immediate Release
Contact: Karl Slocum
267 455 0279
karl@knappgallery.com
The Knapp Gallery Presents:
Nicolas King & Petros Pappalas
In Through the Out Door
Exhibition Dates: January 7th – January 30th, 2011
First Friday Opening: January 7th from 6:00 – 9:30 pm
Artist Reception: Sunday January 9th, 2011 (1pm – 4pm)
Philadelphia) – The Knapp Gallery continues its tradition of First Friday openings and welcomes Nicolas King and Petros Pappalas in their joint exhibition, In through the out Door. A dramatic confrontation between divergent processes, emotions and perspective, King and Pappalas share the ring like mongoose and cobra. Complementary in only their bi-polarity, King’s post-impressionist renderings create a traditional portal through which we can witness the bravado of Pappalas’ expressionism. However divergent, a young Pappalas wrestles with age old questions to which a seasoned King invariably has the answer.
Nicolas King enjoyed a unique history with the Barnes Foundation, here in Philadel
phia as Director, Curator and Head of Conservation. With inescapable influence, a mastery of the “softened” patina, King’s brush translates remarkable sense of sensitivity and affinity for Matisse. Emphasizing visibility of the canvas as negative space within a complex composition, offering differential materials and surfaces - paint and tooth – challenge resulting texture and light enhancing color and dimension of imagery. King juxtaposes vivid and muted colors; quantifiers and emotional tethers to his imagery, dramatic interplays stretching both depth of field and focus. With unique vantage, demonstrable perspective, King creates unique interpretive windows through which to view his myriad of garden-based situational vignettes.
The brawn of struggle yields honesty in Pappalas’ work. Petros paints in the moment.
“I don’t like retracing my steps, cleaning up if you will. In this, I tend to sterilize the nuance with the most value. I need to get in and get out. Timing is everything. ” Fearlessly and aggressively painting offensively, Pappalas abhors the hindsight of defense. Without yielding to the confines of structure and unknowing, Pappalas creates living work borne out of offense, not defense. “Defensive painting, in its passivity, is about fending off fear and death; producing only static product. In tendering dead work, I abrogate my responsibility to the craft.” Kinetics and momentum excite and define his bent on bold and harsh light. Painting from black to light, Pappalas is a proponent of addition over subtraction.
Contact: Karl Slocum
267 455 0279
karl@knappgallery.com
The Knapp Gallery Presents:
Nicolas King & Petros Pappalas
In Through the Out Door
Exhibition Dates: January 7th – January 30th, 2011
First Friday Opening: January 7th from 6:00 – 9:30 pm
Artist Reception: Sunday January 9th, 2011 (1pm – 4pm)
Philadelphia) – The Knapp Gallery continues its tradition of First Friday openings and welcomes Nicolas King and Petros Pappalas in their joint exhibition, In through the out Door. A dramatic confrontation between divergent processes, emotions and perspective, King and Pappalas share the ring like mongoose and cobra. Complementary in only their bi-polarity, King’s post-impressionist renderings create a traditional portal through which we can witness the bravado of Pappalas’ expressionism. However divergent, a young Pappalas wrestles with age old questions to which a seasoned King invariably has the answer.
Nicolas King enjoyed a unique history with the Barnes Foundation, here in Philadel
phia as Director, Curator and Head of Conservation. With inescapable influence, a mastery of the “softened” patina, King’s brush translates remarkable sense of sensitivity and affinity for Matisse. Emphasizing visibility of the canvas as negative space within a complex composition, offering differential materials and surfaces - paint and tooth – challenge resulting texture and light enhancing color and dimension of imagery. King juxtaposes vivid and muted colors; quantifiers and emotional tethers to his imagery, dramatic interplays stretching both depth of field and focus. With unique vantage, demonstrable perspective, King creates unique interpretive windows through which to view his myriad of garden-based situational vignettes.The brawn of struggle yields honesty in Pappalas’ work. Petros paints in the moment.
“I don’t like retracing my steps, cleaning up if you will. In this, I tend to sterilize the nuance with the most value. I need to get in and get out. Timing is everything. ” Fearlessly and aggressively painting offensively, Pappalas abhors the hindsight of defense. Without yielding to the confines of structure and unknowing, Pappalas creates living work borne out of offense, not defense. “Defensive painting, in its passivity, is about fending off fear and death; producing only static product. In tendering dead work, I abrogate my responsibility to the craft.” Kinetics and momentum excite and define his bent on bold and harsh light. Painting from black to light, Pappalas is a proponent of addition over subtraction. 
