| Rule: Nathan Abels |
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Nathan Abels: "Natural Causes"Rule GalleryFebruary 5 - March 20, 2010
 Artist and curator Nathan Abels - photos by Ken Hamel/DenverArts.org  Sculptor Yoshitomo Saito Nathan Abels Curatorial Statement: Each of the works chosen for “Natural Causes” contributes to an overall tone – rooted in what Simone Weil calls the “absence of place”. Many of the artists in the exhibition have obscured or abstracted their images from the natural world; some more directly as seen in Alexander Binder’s photographs of psychedelic forests, Yoshitomo Saito’s casts of natural forms, and the distant landscapes in Jason Stopa’s rear-view mirrors. Others present works whose references to the landscape are less direct; Mindy Bray’s watery abstractions, Eric LoPresti’s aerial landscapes, and Alan Kitchen’s work which is reminiscent of a night sky, a weathered stone or a desert floor. Formally, the pieces that make up “Natural Causes” are softened as though seen through a fog, a dust storm or atmospheric pollutants – they show nature as we experience it, not as it ought to be. There is also a degree of uncertainty or mystery to these works that makes them alluring – as if in a night’s time these scenes will be irrevocably changed. Rule Gallery 227 Broadway Denver, CO 80203 303.777.9473 http://www.rulegallery.com  Nathan Abels - Kairos
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