Gallery 25N is pleased to announce an exhibition of mixed media paintings, mono-prints and steel sculpture by the multi-faceted artist, Satish Joshi. The work will be on view from July 23 - August 28 at Gallery 25N, 25 North Division Street in Peekskill NY. The Artist Reception will be held on Saturday, July 23 from 4 - 7 pm, and Mr. Joshi's works will be available for viewing from Friday - Sunday, 1:00 - 5:00 pm and by appointment.

In addition, Peekskill's monthly First Friday celebration will make it possible to see Satish's work on Friday evening, August 5, 2005 from 5:00 - 9:00PM.

Richard Madigan, the former Director of the Norton Museum of Art, has said about Satish that "at his best, Satish's complicated forms are beguiling of and by themselves..." and "Satish is a highly subjective artist and these paintings are not meant for simple casual examination. They are subjective interpretations of nature as the artist sets out to reinterpret the environment of this world, giving a glimpse backward and forward in the same work."

Satish creates his personal style of abstraction while focusing on the natural subjects of light, color and texture. Textured surfaces, a distinctive link between his two and three-dimensional work, have been a primary feature of his painting, printmaking and sculpture for three decades. Always interested in the interplay and reflection of light, he began working with textured two-dimensional surfaces very early in his career. A 1981 Bronx Museum of Art solo exhibition featured his large-scale canvases from his Light Series V, which brought the viewer flying outward into the vastness of the cosmos. Currently working on shaped wooden palettes in his familiar combination of acrylic modeling paste, gesso, and oils, Satish now creates smaller, landscape-infused mixed media paintings that give the onlooker the illusion of being inside, gazing outward through a window onto a smaller, intimately realized, piece of the natural world.

Satish's mono-print technique uses the same idiosyncratic combination of acrylics and oils as his paintings but yields a distinctly different result. Following the printing of a single distinct image from a heavily textured rigid surface, his print plate is wiped clean; a completely reimagined version of the same image is produced through a new, individual application of color. A technique unique to himself, a Satish mono-print is a one-of-a-kind work of art.

Satish's 1989 Facades steel series, also on view at Gallery 25N, is closely connected to his paintings because of his fascination, again, with light and texture. To quote Cynthia Nadelman, Contributing Editor of ARTnews: "The activity that was the central element of Satish's paintings seems to have been extracted and placed in space. His concern with making light a nearly tangible thing is translated to the surfaces and spaces within these sculptures."

A rich mixture of ideas, technique and philosophies infuse Satish's work in all dimensions and media.

Gallery Hours
Friday - Sunday
12:00 to 5:00 PM and by appointment

More information about the artist and his work is available at: www.gallery25N.com

For information contact:
Edward Burke (Director)
914-293-0811
mail@gallery25N.com
www.gallery25N.com