Patrick Hughes/Herbert Creecy

Angela Flowers Gallery (Los Angeles)/City Gallery East (Atlanta)

Together for no reason but that one's works are unreproducible, and the other's unreproduced.1

Patrick Hughes Bookish handcolored multiple 3D construction edition of 35 46 x 70 cm 1999

Patrick Hughes Doorways handcolored multiple 3D construction edition of 35 46 x 70 cm 1999

Hughes: a zigzag of tangible elements forefronting a manic exercise in sedate vision; you look upon a canvas-sized wall construction with a sort of representation on it, and as you look it opens into a series of doors on a tropical beach, a Borgesian library, an art gallery, and as you move along it the picture moves to the last line of vision to give you all the details.

Herbert Creecy The Eye and Birds acrylic on canvas 69 x 66" 1972

Herbert Creecy Red Jungle acrylic on canvas 66 x 56" 1986

Creecy: impossible generator of matrices within perfect paintings, from the tragedy of isolated spatters to paintings as electric as if plugged into a wall socket, the force of the brush, adherences of form, meremost declinations of decorative ambiguity in an elemental state of conditioning, what you can do with a brush.