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American painter Carl Ostendarp believes in a world in which a serious paintercan make work that does not demand connoisseurship from his audience. Hisinstallations employing walls of continuously painted two-tone wave shapesas a backdrop for deceptively simple cartoonlike paintings and sculptures areintended to re-contextualize the gallery space and refresh our way of seeing.In his newest project, Book, Ostendarp re-creates the continuous-wave motifusing the pages of the book as gallery walls, inviting viewers to project theirown imagery while merging the foundations of Modernism, Pop, Color Field andMinimalism into his simple biomorphic forms. Available in two versions bluetones or red tones Book makes space for Ostendarp s viewers to play and createtheir own installation, in reality or imagination.