Into The Unknown- new paintings exhibition at gallery 60SIX in San Francisco, Feb 11 - March 4. 2023

Into the Unknown   Jurgen Trautwein’s exhibition “Into the Unknown" is his ninth show of paintings at 60SIX. Consistent with most of his painting series the artist used found objects as the canvas. Large print fashion ads in a hanging banner format provide a front and back surface for the work.  Echoing a past suite of works called “Skins”, both sides of the banners have a painted surface. In the series “Skins”, images showed through monochrome paintings and the back was latent but mostly invisible unless turning the piece. In this case the backside becomes the front, which presents controlled accidents made with additive and subtractive processes. Surfaces are built with unpredictable texture, color and composition. Nuances of printmaking, particularly mono printing appear, where the pealed paint from the studio floor merge with paint bleeding through the front. Unexpected images emerge, reminiscent of aerial topography or landscapes. No boundary exists here in what mark came from what circumstance.  Trautwein violating the surface within a finessed dance of intention, chaos, deliberation and accident, results in a rich, unbridled sensibility to these paintings.

R u Sirius new paintings on star- and animal game maps at gallery 60six in San Francisco

 

R u Sirius   Jürgen Trautwein presents his new suite of paintings in an eighth exhibition with 60SIX, “R u Sirius”. His practice of using found objects continues as in this series printed vellum maps of game animals and star constellations act as the canvas, both showing through and at times creating resistance with the acrylic paint. Jürgen has an uncanny ability to seemingly effortlessly integrate elements of subjects or materials he confronts in daily life into his paintings. In these paintings the artist’s brush marks subtly or boldly disintegrate and deconstruct. In some pieces the marks from the maps below show through the paint as a curious pattern or code. Trautwein’s deliberate manner allows his color fields and wide brush gestures to interact with the found object substrate and create an unlabored aesthetic, not precious, nor overly worked. The artist says about his paintings, “They are voids of no incident encouraging a state of contemplative meditation in the viewer.” The name of the series married with the outer space maps suggest the absurdity and inevitably of our precarious current relationship with the larger universe and the microscopic world. This angst resides just beneath the surface in our lives and below the artist’s confident gesture.

Reception:  Saturday, February 19 5:00-8:00pm at 455A Valencia, SF CA 94103 MASKS required and vaccination cards will be checked at the door.

60SIX After the off-site opening, view by appointment at 12 Elgin Park San Francisco CA 94103 http://www.gallery60six.com 415-577-4396

 

"Born" large scale paintings on cotton and paper

 

Are You Sirius? A painting series based on vinyl starmaps and game-animal posters

selected works from a painting project exploring a stroke of paint as such

 

"Girls Navels and Dream Boys" advertisement elimination scrolls, acrylic paintings on synthetic cloth

 all between 200-220 cm by 80-100 cm, July-November 2020

Girls navels and dream boys - advertisment elimination scrolls, acrylic on synthetic cloth - studio shot

 

Floor_Candy - a color-field and balloon-kick game - various versions, SF 2020

Floor_Candy, floor installation and balloon-kick game, color balloons and color field paintings on cotton, dimensions variable, SF 2020

__a living under lock-down game__

a game without a goal to fill in the blank

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Jürgen Trautwein - If yesterday were tomorrow today would be Sunday Paintings - gallery 60SIX, San Francisco

Jürgen Trautwein

If yesterday were tomorrow today would be Sunday

Paintings

Jürgen Trautwein presents his seventh exhibition with 60SIX, "If Yesterday were Tomorrow, Today would be Sunday."
In this series, old newsprint collages from the mid 90’s live under acrylic paint. The artist used mainly San Francisco Chronicle & Examiner Sunday papers using a wheat flour based gluing process in multiple layers revealing bends, wrinkles, folds and resulting in unexpected refractions. The agitated surfaces become rich and nuanced while unlabored. The creases and lines and pools of paint are reminiscent of his set of works from the Topography series as well as earlier work on antique linen where minimal fields are interrupted by paint sticking to folds and creases.
The artist says of his new series, "YesterMorrow reflects on the idea of re-thinking, re-evaluation, re-painting, re-creation, re-cycling and re-definition." The paintings are, he says, “silent reminders of erased content, voids of no incident.”
Trautwein’s paintings often feel like objects that have undergone a reaction. The materials are fully present and embodied in the object. The artist’s title "If Yesterday were Tomorrow Today would be Sunday," illustrates his zen approach. The logic is absent, and we are left only with the present moment and the object and our experience of it.

http://www.gallery60six.com/yestermorrow

The sound of the rain needs no translation - solo exhibition at Gallery60six in San Francisco

TSOTR-M-b/g 2 (Neptuns Girlfriend), acrylic on canvas, 46,5"x36,5", 2018 the sound of the rain needs no translation Jürgen Trautwein presents his 6th show with 60SIX, “the sound of the rain needs no translation.” This reductive suite of paintings, like most of Trautwein’s series’ uses visual and conceptual content from his last body of work as momentum into the next. In “Train Ride to Luxor” the flat horizontal paintings with a trancelike light inner white glow bounced the viewer’s eye from flat space to deep space and back again. In the new work the viewer steps almost entirely into the deep white space where color practically disappears from the edges, almost like entering Doug Wheeler’s “infinity room” of white light and nothingness.  This series’ title and it’s individual painting titles, such as “Every Day is a Good Day” and “Neptune’s Girlfriend” translate the work’s embodiment of zen notions of the here and now.  Like a Robert Ryman painting or a Jon Zurier, this work sits quietly and demands only a deep breath. Trautwein has dual sets of work in his practice. His drawings and video works (some of which he calls hypertexts) with sound and his signature “time sheets,”sublimate nervous energy and illuminate randomness and chaos. They satirize politics, technology, and as the artist says, “perpetually reoccurring human folly.” His paintings provide an escape to the calm and serenity of the present moment.  The viewer finds their own meaning in confronting these minimal paintings. http://www.gallery60six.com/thesoundoftherain Exhibition views/installation shots

Pop up Reception: Saturday, February 9, 6:30-9pm 455A Valencia Street SF CA 94103 View by appointment February 12-through March 9 12 Elgin Park, SF CA 94103

http://www.gallery60six.com for more info: 415-577-4396

Skies Away - a studio Archaeology painting project

"Skies Away" is an experimental Studio-Floor-Transfer-painting-series in progress.

The series consists of thin color excavations being preserved on linen, handkerchiefs and paper,

 embracing the accidental outcome.

"Skies Away" is peeling off paint that has accumulated on the in plastic covered studio floor over the course of the past 7 years.

SkAy_shellmount1, acrylic on linen, ca. 230cm x 120cm, 2018

 SkAy_ shellmount 2, acrylic on linen, ca. 200cm x 120cm, 2018

SkAy_pinkviridian, acrylic on linen, 30cm x 40cm, 2018

 SkAy_pinkviridianblue, acrylic on linen, 30cm x 40cm, 2018




SkAy_tamalpais, acrylic on linen, 33cm x 40cm, 2018

 SkAy_scallops, acrylic on paper, 21cm x 30cm, 2018

 SkAy_wakame, acrylic on paper, 21cm x 30cm, 2018

SkAy_hotei, acrylic on paper, 21cm x 30cm, 2018

SkAy_forgetmenot, acrylic on linen, 25cm x 25cm, 2018

SkAy_farallone, acrylic on handkerchief, 25cm x 25cm, 2018

TRTL- train ride to luxor- paintings at gallery 60six San Francisco - roomshots

train ride to luxor - paintings in acrylic on canvas

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TRTL - train ride to luxor at gallery 60six san francisco 2018

Jürgen Trautwein  Train Ride to Luxor

60SIX presents Jürgen Trautwein’s new body of paintings “Train Ride to Luxor,” his fifth exhibition with the gallery. TRTL is a series of paintings inspired by a segment of the artist’s five month journey through Southern Europe, the Middle East and Egypt, specifically his experience in a train from Cairo to Luxor. The paintings are structured with a simple powerful graphic of a blurred field of space, a rectangle or two, light and dark, movement and stillness. They seem to instill a vision of the past, present and future in one moment. 

Often unusual materials comprise the physicality of Trautwein’s pieces. Here he uses traditional canvas and brush. Yet similarly to others of his painting series’ this work brings attention to notions of time and duration. The pictures appear without the hand of the artist drawn to much attention. Some pieces feel like a marriage of the zen quality of a Rothko field painting with the simplicity of the squares on squares of Josef Albers…but without the emphasis on color interactions (like Albers.) The light atmospheric glow draws the viewer into a “light and space” trance-like place, while the monochrome color field quickly bounces the eye back to the painting’s flatness.  The final effect is typical with Trautwein’s works: An experience of painting with deliberate, unapologetic immediacy.

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February 10-March 24

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Folk-Pop paintings/objects in acrylic on linen

OFL (old family linen) - acrylic paintings on antique linen

OFL are monochromatic paintings, using old family linen, exploring the absence of form, the void, silence, detachment, folds, creases, wrinkles, crinkles, cutting edges, seams, fringes, buck-lings and deflections. OFL gives praise to my mother my grand mothers and great grandmothers, who kept their linen meticulously folded, bearing invisible traces of love, joy, birth, suffering and death. This series of paintings is part of the evolving "traces of times past" project. click here for more images