{"id":2566,"date":"2010-02-14T18:10:04","date_gmt":"2010-02-14T23:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/womantalk.wordpress.com\/?p=2566"},"modified":"2010-02-14T18:10:04","modified_gmt":"2010-02-14T23:10:04","slug":"daniel-aksten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=2566","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Aksten"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i108.photobucket.com\/albums\/n18\/womantalk\/DanielAksten6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"320\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Untitled Plurality (Red) 2009<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Quirky, pixilated paintings by Daniel Aksten are the highlight of the new downtown gallery, CB1Gallery\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s inaugural show, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Difference and Repetition.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00c2\u00a0 Uniform metal panels explore a restrained palette (red, grey, yellow\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6) with taped grids and squares with rounded corners. Featuring both what the artist refers to as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153portraits\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153landscapes,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d each work is a result of calculated construction and arbitrary randomness determined, literally, by a roll of dice. Interestingly, the carefully masked and unmasked marks of automotive paint, refer not so much to the future as it might have in the past, as much as to the now almost antiquated computer byte. Even the subtle basket-weaving texture of the paint layers points to craft and the artist\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hand, in a way that makes one think about how the word \u00e2\u20ac\u0153modern\u00e2\u20ac\u009d has come to seem \u00e2\u20ac\u0153old-fashioned\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (CB1Gallery, Downtown).<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i108.photobucket.com\/albums\/n18\/womantalk\/DanielAksten2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"320\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Untitled Composite (RYB), 2010<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quirky, pixilated paintings by Daniel Aksten are the highlight of the new downtown gallery, CB1Gallery\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s inaugural show, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Difference and Repetition.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00c2\u00a0 Uniform metal panels explore a restrained palette (red, grey, yellow\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6) with taped grids and squares with rounded corners. Featuring both &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=2566\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}