Shapedrift
DCA Gallery, New York
September 8 – October 13, 2001
Shapedrift brought together paintings and prints in which rhythmic structures, saturated colour, and shifting organic forms moved between control and transformation. The exhibition reflected the close relationship between painting and printmaking in Bjarne Werner Sørensen’s work: the rhythmic line of the prints reappears in the paintings, while the handling of the printing plate retains a painterly quality.
The exhibition opened three days before the attacks of September 11. As September 11 was the gallery’s first scheduled opening day following the reception, the exhibition consequently unfolded in the immediate aftermath of 9/11.
In his catalogue essay Fluid Patterns, written in relation to paintings from this period, Danish philosopher Ole Thyssen described the works as existing “in between the strongly controlled and the random” and as “snapshots of transformations.”
Read the full essay: Fluid Patterns by Ole Thyssen.
"Border", oil on canvas, 100 x 120 cm, 2001, private collection USA
"Nautical Zone", oil on canvas, 150 x 190 cm, 2001, private collection Denmark
"Parallel Issue", oil on canvas, 160 x 200 cm, 2001, private collection USA
"Charge", oil on canvas, 200 x 130 cm, 2001
"Motion Phase", oil on canvas, 165 x 200 cm, 2001, private collection USA
"Shapedrift", oil on canvas, 300 x 200 cm, 2001
"Soft Wind", oil on canvas, 115 x 150 cm, 2001
"Windup", oil on canvas, 120 x 150 cm, 2001, private collection UK
"Aether", oil on canvas, 80 x 60 cm, 2000
"Ice Red", oil on canvas, 90 x 70 cm, 2000
"Vegetations", oil on canvas, 150 x 120 cm, 2001, private collection Denmark
"Power Spot", oil on canvas, 120 x 150 cm, 2001, private collection Denmark
