Paris London Hong Kong is pleased to invite you to ‘Light/Industry/Coating’, an installation of new work by Andrew Falkowski. Light/Industry/Coating is the first in a periodic cycle of paintings that considers various material applications in a series of digressive permutations. They are responses to entanglements offered by various media and material platforms. Exploratory in nature, Falkowski’s painting cycle considers the title terms for their dialogic possibility. The paintings in Light/Industry/Coating are indebted to excel spreadsheets, skateboard graphics, running shoe displays, enrollment strategies, labor economies, big box DIY Warehouses and materials found in light, cottage industry. Thin, tablet sized grid paintings line the wall on a shallow shelf. That black color fields of the paintings blend into the black gallery wall, projecting various color differences in the field, or grid, forward. Attached to this series are two 7 foot by 5 foot plexiglass acrylic paintings. These large paintings act in contradistinction to their smaller counterparts. While the small tablets function primary as objects, the high gloss surface of the these larges paintings function like walls. They are experiential, mirroring, expanding and refracting the space of the gallery.

Small square monochrome paintings act in material dialogue to the large plexiglass paintings. These transparent, color tinted acrylic glass monochromes have wood frames coated with milk paint. Once used for Egyptian Heiroglyphs, its association now is with historic furniture restoration and ‘shabby chic’ DIY home improvement. Material opposition, the new with the old, collapses as the Plexiglass, used for light industrial fabrication is counterbalanced by an ancient paint. Finally, hyper smooth, framed white panels are sprayed with transparent, saturated color mist. Shapeless and formless, the colors intermingle to construct bright tertiary fields, a purposely indistinct response to the grid schema prevalent throughout the installation.