John Belingheri, ''Cyprus,'' 2010, mixed media on linen burlap, 60 x 60''
The Huffington Post recently reviewed the current top exhibitions in the Western United States. John Beligheri’s latest solo show was among the standouts.
John Belingheri
at Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Recommendation by Dewitt Cheng, Visual Art Source
The idea of art defining and being defined by its medium was one of the prime directives of the modernist credo that was superseded a generation ago by the aesthetic free-for-all that is postmodernism. Hybrid combinations of media that deal with multiple definitions of art? More like artists jumping from medium to medium as ideas dictate, as if from one dying warhorse to another? Fine. Immaterial art made of nothing more substantial than words? Tell us more!
Emeryviile’s John Belingheri makes a strong case for the viability of abstract painting in terms of both process and product, activity and completed but never completely resolved action. Generally square in format, and of moderate size, the images consist of fields of slightly squashed dots, like pumpkins or oblate spheroids, to use the geographical term that may suggest Larry Poons’ paintings of the 1960s. To read more.