Mitch Temple: The Sea Inside

May 30th-August 9th

di Rosa Napa

Mitch Temple’s “The Sea Inside” is one piece comprised of fifty-two paintings—the number in a deck of cards, weeks in the year, and the age he was when painting the series. Each piece is 18×24, black and white, acrylic on paper, and features a large, totemic “wave” shape front and center in every piece. He employs chance operations in concert and in contrast to his painterly process to create paintings that balance a carnival of abstract passages and representational imagery. His work shows the flickerings and fringes of consciousness, and its playful path toward communication, connection, and meaning.