Dolby Chadwick Gallery is pleased to present There is No Time, an exhibition of new work by Udo Nöger.
The Latin language provides us with different words for two distinct kinds of light. One is Lux (from which we derive the word luxury), referring to the way that an external light source describes and reflects the subtle undulations of a given surface. The other is Lumina, indicating an emanation from within an object, almost always connoting a Platonic idea of living spirit pre-existing earthly embodiment. The former might prompt us to think of Baroque sculpture or Mannerist painting, while the latter points us toward the Byzantine icon and the Symbolist dreamscape. Rarely do we see both notions of light inhabiting the same work of art.
Udo Nöger’s paintings exemplify that kind of rare moment. Like desert mirages, they reveal and conceal themselves to play subtle tricks on eyes overly accustomed to the precise parsing of increments between foreground and background. They evoke the twilit moments experienced at sea or on a snowbound prairie, times and places where thick mists obliterate any accurate reckoning of distance. They are saturated with nuances pertaining to the relationships of light and the ephemeral, at once reflective, refractive and projective. They conjure the time-honored truism stating that art can reveal the invisible, but only if you let it show.
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