Mehr (Midtown) is pleased to present Recycler, the New York debut exhibition of painter Jorg Scheibe. The show will feature his most recent series of abstract oil paintings ranging in scale from 4' to 7'. In our project room, Matthew Sloly will exhibit Drawings toward a shapeshifter. Recycler is on view from March 8 through April 7, 2007.

Scheibe's dynamic paintings borrow their movement and shape shifting abilities from a 21st century futurism, seamlessly mutating forms against high-colored grounds. By turns conveying sci-fi landscape or Pop bursts of drama, Scheibe abandons all recognizable imagery in exchange for pools of molten color. In doing so, he puts a spin on the tradition of oil painting by contextualizing it through the means of the digital age.

The paintings are reflective of abstract futuristic objects and landscapes. Scheibe chooses bold and compelling colors palettes, which swim together dictating the space of each work as well as the forms. There is a fluidity within these paintings that is at once refreshing and enticing, enabling the viewer to follow his meandering colors as they move through melding forms and shifting space, sometimes stopping and becoming stuck in dense fields of flat color.

Jorg Scheibe was born in 1966 in Ebersbach, Saxony. He studied in Dresden at the Hochschule fur Bildende Kunste from 1987-1993. Scheibe has had seven solo exhibitions since 1996, starting in Kunstcontor, Dresden, then in Klostergalerie, Rambin, followed by Kunstmuseum, Magdeburg and Galerie Hartwich, Sellin, Rugen, and currently with Spielhaus Morrison Galerie, Berlin. Catalogues available upon request.

Matthew Sloly was born in 1971 in Kingston, Jamaica and holds an MFA from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. Sloly has exhibited at the Banff Center for Contemporary Art in Canada and Adamski Gallery in Germany. He is preparing a forthcoming collaborative exhibition, Philosphy of Time Travel, at the Studio Museum of Harlem. Sloly currently lives and works in Los Angeles.

For information or exhibition images, please contact Lital Mehr at 1.212.255.0009 or lital@mehrgallery.com. Gallery hours are Tuesday to Saturday, 10 - 6pm.