55 Orchard Street, New York, New York 10002 212 989 5467 fax 212 989 5642
55 Orchard Street, New York, New York 10002 212 989 5467 fax 212 989 5642 |
The Story Goes |
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The Story Goes explores the ways in which artists create narratives with minimal reliance on the traditionally expected carrier of story-telling, the representation of the human form. Featuring paintings, drawings and sculpture, the exhibition includes work by Henry Brown, Jim Dingilian, Stephen Hannock, David Kramer, Katharine Kuharic, Jean Lowe, Nava Lubelski, Tom Moran, Maki Tamura, Eugenie Tung, Michael Waugh, and Laura Sharp Wilson. Possessions and financial status can define an individual's personality and tell a story about a life lead. Some works in the exhibition construct a narrative of modern-day desires and individual insecurities which skewer contemporary mores, while others record financial gains and losses through abstract painting and sculpture. Text appears in several guises: as a diaristic record of friendships and important life events which occur in a specific place; as a humorous tale of the life of a New York artist; in a political commentary where historical text is used to construct the imagery itself. Also political are works in which surreal landscapes express the artist's simultaneous despair and hopefulness regarding our current political climate and environmental degradation and loss. Other artists refer to film and theatre in staged, unpopulated environments which depict banal suburban settings with an air of expectancy and menace, or create ghost-like settings that deny specific memory. In other works, a lattice structure causes an intentional fragmentation of linear narrative, while in some abstract paintings the pencil under-drawing reveals a narrative of its substructure, planning and execution. | |||||||
 Tom Moran Tomorrow, 2006 Polymer resin on panel 16 x 20 inches |
 Tom Moran Late, 2006 Polymer resin on panel 8 x 10 inches |
 Maki Tamura Oasis, 2006 Watercolor on paper 24 x 32 x 2 1/2 inches |
 Laura Sharp Wilson On the Sea on the Land, 2007 Acrylic and graphite on Unryu paper mounted on wood 25 x 38 inches |
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