ART REVIEW:Alex Hubbard-Jon Pestoni

Two American artists who live and work in Los Angeles, are representing one post-painting School of L.A., since they maintain the large surfaces and the strong-bright colors, their works are non-figurative and abstract, acting as reference to abstract expressionism but adapted in a new social context. At the Helen Koronaiou Gallery create an interesting conversation, where the viewer has the impression that their intersection point is the point of exclusion. On the one hand, Hubbard, who is younger (1975), composes painting fields with amorphous shapes that highlight the depth and the surface of the canvas. Creating grids, which are not purely geometrically, but are characterized by the density of the shifted color. In contrast to Jon Pestoni (1969), that his paintings, consist of multiple color layers, each of them representing a story. The different layers of paint, the irregular colors and squiggles(?) Sometimes cover and sometimes reveal stories and adventures…-Efi Michalarou