About This Book
Crossing the Horizon, an exhibition of new paintings by Jack McWhorter in the Main Gallery of The Painting Center. McWhorter is searching within painting for a connection between something that hovers just below the world of visible matter and systems of recognition and information in our visible material world. The paintings are informed by several open impulses and ideas that radiate the spirit of natural and coded systems. For example, experiments with particles have taught us that the world is a continuous, restless swarming of things, a perpetual coming to light and disappearance of ephemeral entities. The inner life of natural phenomena becomes an alternative to the automatic perception of nature as landscape. The work is involved with the process of nature in so far as it goes through different kinds of climate and seasonal states within a world of happenings with no singular reference.
