Solo Exhibitions > A Healthy Sense of All I Do Not Know

Half-Pressed
Oil on canvas.
40 x 34 inches
2007
Untitled
Oil on canvas.
60 x 56 inches
2007
Untitled
Oil on canvas.
48 x 36 inches
2007
Untitled
Oil on canvas.
51 x 43 inches
2007
Untitled
Oil on canvas.
32 x 26 inches
2007
Untitled
Oil on canvas.
51 x 43 inches
2007
Untitled
Ink on paper.
14 x 11 inches.
2007
Untitled
Oil, graphite and colored pencil on canvas.
60 x 56 inches
2007
Untitled
Oil on canvas.
48 x 36 inches
2007
Untitled (Headstone)
Oil on canvas.
30 x 40 inches
2007
Untitled
Oil and colored pencil on paper.
17 x 14 inches
2007
Me/Everyone Else
Oil and ink on paper.
14 x 11 inches
2007
Untitled
Oil on canvas.
51 x 43 inches
2007
A Place for Passion Under Control
Oil on canvas.
27 x 21 inches
2007
Untitled
Oil on canvas.
72 x 54 inches
2008
Untitled
Oil on canvas.
30 x 24 inches
2007
Buttons
Oil on canvas.
26 x 32 inches
2007
Untitled
Oil on canvas.
30 x 26 inches
2007

Mixed Greens, New York 2008

Mixed Greens is pleased to announce Howard Fonda's third solo show with the gallery. In this exhibition, he will debut a new body of paintings and drawings.

In this latest series, Fonda's sincere and introspective paintings are each made alla prima, in one sitting. This urgency of mark results in a raw and visceral surface reminiscent of an underpainting, but with the craft and precision of finish. Full of rich color and earthy hues, each painting embodies a directness that binds form with content as Fonda explores his relationship to meaning and truth.

Instead of adhering to a singular aesthetic, Fonda privaleges his studio practice and process, where his choice of subject dictates form. As a result, he adeptly crosses genres and applies methods of both abstraction and representation. With reverence, Fonda references an historical narrative ranging from Platonic thought to Classical sculpture; Aboriginal textiles to mythic storytelling; and Romantic literature to expressionism.

By framing existence within spirituality, semantics, metaphysics and paint itself, Fonda's confidence and curiosity, coupled with a self-deprecating sense of humor, remind us all that there is much about the world we do not know.