Josh SPERLING

Perrotin is pleased to present Head Over Heels, a solo exhibition by artist Josh Sperling organized across two exhibition spaces of the Marais' gallery.  On the gallery's first floor, Josh Sperling presents work based on a “double bubble” motif. Here, however, they become the building blocks for experimenting with a wide variety of form, purposefully leaving these canvases unpainted to successively emphasize and de-emphasize the varied patterning in his work. A sudden visual crescendo develops from room to room, from the subtle play of light and shadow of the monochromes to splashes of vibrant color in his AbEx series. On the gallery’s second floor, two more series of paintings that escape the traditional confines of the square or rectangle. Whimsical, brightly colored linear works of large looping cursives called Swoops are presented alongside flat planes of interlocking shapes titled Repeater Composites. Drawing on a wide array of influences that include the modular compositions of minimalism, the shaped canvases of Frank Stella, and the Op Art of Victor Vasarely, Sperling reinvents and reconstructs painting using new tools and methods, exploiting its edges and overlaps with sculpture, architecture and design.