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Dolby Chadwick Gallery is pleased to announce FURBISH, an exhibition of recent work by Tom Lieber. Created over the past two years, this group of paintings expands upon the artist’s four-decade-long exploration of abstraction’s limitless possibilities.

Lieber often begins with a single splattering of paint across the canvas. “It’s freeing to start with a spontaneous, organic line,” he says. He follows this line, building up and around it, sensing its gesture and inherent dynamic, feeding off its energy and moving it forward. Lieber then steps back and begins to take away anything that is external to the original gesture. The process of erasure, of eliminating anything non-essential, creates the space from which his compositions arise. As a result, the bodies in his works often seem to be pulsating in space, ephemeral conglomerations that may soon morph or disappear again. It’s as if his particular way of painting—adding elements and then erasing them, adding more and erasing more—were still echoing through the finished works.