shift-alt-delete
Pentimenti Gallery continues its fall season with a solo exhibition by JAIME BRETT TREADWELL. For Shift Alt Delete Treadwell presents a series of fantastic, transdimensional non-objective paintings consisting of vibrant geometric patterns and forms. Each painting explores how color and design can affect visual deception, nostalgia, spatial ambiguity, and retinal stimulation. Through meticulous attention to detail and calculated color relationships, his work achieves a constantly stimulating electric vibrancy and fluorescent glow that radiates from each surface. Treadwell says of the work, “My recent paintings lean toward a series of invented forms, which employ optical deceptions, and often bend the space between ambiguity and certainty. Adopting Op Art tenets, such as shimmering and shifting line and color, and channeling various retro-aesthetics including 80’s nostalgia, hard-edge painting, and early digital graphics, I experiment by mashing bizarre ingredients together anticipating new possibilities and unfamiliar interactions.” Treadwell received a BA in Painting and Sculpture at the State University of New York at Cortland and received an MFA from the University of Pennsylvania. Treadwell’s work has been exhibited throughout the United States and abroad including New York, Miami, Los Angeles, Boston, South Korea, Vancouver, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Dallas, and Chicago. Publications, artist features, and interviews include Juxtapoz Magazine, Hi-Fructose Magazine, New Contemporary (Gingko Press), Blue Canvas Magazine, New American Paintings, JPEOPLE Magazine, Carne Magazine, Direct Art Magazine, Bizzarre Magazine, DVYZE Magazine, Artkolik Magazine, WOWxWOW magazine, Good Game Magazine, Philadelphia Inquirer, and The Miami New Times. His work is included in numerous corporate and private collections. For all inquiries, please contact Pentimenti Gallery at [email protected] or +1 215.625.9990.
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Space Bar, 60 x 48 inches, oil on panel, 2018
“The paintings on view in Shift | Alt | Delete point to a slight detour from previous directions. Experimentation with new ideas, specifically architectural and mechanical drawing methods, combined with my persistent 1980’s childhood influences, including MTV graphics, digital synthesizers, and Miami Vice, has resulted in a deeper complexity of interwoven parts. I chose the exhibition title shift alt delete after recognizing the correlation between keyboard functions and the shifting realities present throughout this body of work. The shift key is designed to shift from one version to another, such as lower case to upper case. Alt, short for alternate, is designed as a modifier key to adjust or alter change. This ability to change or manipulate reality parallels my recent investigations regarding visual deceptions and spatial ambiguity through line, shape, color, and space. Similar to the key functions, elements in my painting often serve multiple roles. For example, a thin line may operate as the edge of a shape and also contribute to a repeating pattern of lines, later to return as a single line that cuts through another form or shape. These moments of co-existence throughout the painting disrupt the viewer’s perception of truth, often bending reality. Similar to pressing the shift, alt or delete key, these paintings can quickly switch identities back and forth, as they suggest alternate realities or a fictional universe.” Pentimenti Gallery Nov. 10th – Dec. 20th Philadelphia, PA

A Little Something To Make Me Sweeter, 10 x 10 inches, oil on panel, 2018

Erasure, 44 x 44 inches, oil on panel, 2018

Deception, 15 x 22 inches, oil on panel, 2018

Party Girl, 14 x 24 inches oil on panel, 2018

Plane Shift, 14 x 22 inches, oil on panel, 2018

Everytime You See Through Me, 38 x 50 inches, oil on panel, 2018

Intersect, 20×14 inches, oil on panel, 2018
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