Challenging the ideas around contemporary painting, Andrew Falkowski presents graphic paintings replete with cultural references such as Piet Mondrian, Nick Low, The Germs, Tame Impala, Asic Running Shoes, Roy Lichtenstein’s Ben Day dots, The Beach Boys, and the artist Sarah Morris. These references and his approach all pose questions about the state of things and asks ‘what goes from here?’

For On to the Next One, Falkowski’s fourth solo show at Rosamund Felsen Gallery, two bodies of artwork confront us: paintings on paper and paintings on aluminum panel. Careful attention is given to systems of organization. Precision, grid schemes, saturated color charts, and patterning are all employed, only to be disrupted with various breaks in the order and surface. The effect is sometimes intense, with a feeling of ruptured space. At other times, it is a subtle tonal change of color or structure, revealing an ongoing investigation of clarity in geometric abstraction.

As the artist states ‘there are billion different idioms, genres and pictoral conditions that can be proposed as new editorial models or elements in a reconstructive strategy. That to me is the bright future in the 21st century. I’m focused on how painting redesigns itself, manipulates its characteristics, not as a naturalized extension of subjectivity, but as a sequence of dispersed responses in light of new media and different entanglements. In that sense, these are just editorial propositions, things I’m only beginning to grasp.