Ted Gahl: She is My Clock

About

 Living and working in Connecticut, Gahl creates paintings with intuition, which draw from his imagination, personal image archive and art historical references. In this new body of work, a predominant feature is the inclusion of cabinets, easels and screens in the compositions, a device that allows Gahl to create pictures within pictures. Bringing memory into conversation with fiction, as well as abstraction with figuration. Brushstrokes are contained and in cases compartmentalised by the hard formal definition of furniture and props. This could be seen as an attempt to exert control in a time of seeming wider dwindling control. These set pieces then function as stages, provoking a series of ethereal, otherworldly scenarios.