February 1 - 25, 2012

Opening Reception: Saturday, February 4th from 4:00- 6:00 p.m.

Gallery Paule Anglim is pleased to announce an exhibition of new paintings by Andrew Masullo.

For his fourth exhibition at the gallery, Masullo has selected a group of small paintings (most 16” x 20”) as a prescribed installation in Gallery II.  The oil paintings on pre-made stretchers are bright, nonobjective compositions with hand-delineated areas of color.  His thoughtful approach pays subtle homage to his chosen pantheon of artists, including Forrest Bess, Florine Stettheimer, Friedrich ‘Vordemberge-Gildewart and Augusto Giacometti, yet he puts his faith in the immediacy springing from intuition, chance and ‘automatic’ creativity:

“Each (painting) has its own internal clock and I’ve got no sway with any of them as to when they’re done. When working, I may have an idea of what to do next, but I rarely know if that idea is going to be “the big one” or a big fat setback. That’s OK, because setbacks, along with worry, doubt, and General Chaos are all valuable tools.  …No matter how much I love looking at a finished picture, it’s the finding-my-way-from Chaos-to-terra firma that is at the heart of making things.”

From an interview with Hudson at Feature Gallery, October 2006

Andrew Masullo’s work will be represented in the 2012 Whitney Biennial opening March 1st.  In 2011 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship Grant. He lived and worked in New York City for 20 years before making San Francisco his home in 2005. His works have been exhibited in galleries internationally for over 20 years.