Faced to this set, paintings swung wide open, proceeding through the nave: Here r more. The view: a visually stacked image-scape, shifting frames of reference, interruptions, and a de-emphasis of the thematic footing of an exhibition, aside a rather intrepid acceptance of the mysterious, emotionally charged, and phenomenological process of painting. Slowing down. Turning around. Looking through this intermingling of pictorial space and real space, the surfaces of these stretched canvases become panes of glass: at one point reflexive, another reflective, and at another point a space through which one can see.

This publication was produced on the occasion of Hartmut Austen’s exhibition Here r more from May 13 - June 25, 2016 at Good Weather Gallery (North Little Rock, AR) and features color reproductions of recent paintings and detail shots together with a text titled “Spoiler Alert” by Minnesota-based artists, writer and color theories Ruben Nusz.