Delia Brown
dal 15/11/2002 al 21/12/2002
Segnalato da
15/11/2002
Delia Brown
D Amelio Terras, New York
D'Amelio Terras is pleased to present Pastorale, the second New York solo exhibition by gallery artist Delia Brown. Each of Brown's projects has explored a particular theme through genre painting. Pastorale explores the aspirations toward truth and spirituality embedded in notions of the pastoral. Brown will present a music video she directed and produced as well as a series of imaginary landscape paintings.
Pastorale
D'Amelio Terras is pleased to present Pastorale, the second New York solo
exhibition by gallery artist Delia Brown. Each of Brown's projects has
explored a particular theme through genre painting. Pastorale explores the
aspirations toward truth and spirituality embedded in notions of the
pastoral. Brown will present a music video she directed and produced as well
as a series of imaginary landscape paintings.
Finding inspiration in 'Closer,' a song by west coast singer/songwriter
Goapele, Brown conceived a project based on the music. Brown casts the
singer as an omniscient presence, roaming through an afternoon party. The
rustic location, the smooth tracking of the camera, the song's soulful
acoustics, and Goapele's rich, warm voice set the tone for the pop idyll.
Also presented is a series of large oil paintings depicting imagined
arcadian settings. Their titles refer us to Marie Antoinette's Hameau de la
Reine, the rustic playland constructed on the grounds of Versailles, for the
queen who enjoyed enacting fantasies of peasant life; and Henry David
Thoreau's Walden Pond, site of "self-reliance" and the individual's
independence from established culture. Beginning by abstracting from stills
of the video, Brown soon discarded the photographic source in order to allow
the paintings to unfold into the unknown that they would become, without
forethought about imagery or subject matter. With this project, Brown seeks
to draw a parallel between the romantic ideals of painting and Western
culture's idealization of the landscape as the site of spiritual renewal and
divine discovery.
Delia Brown has recently held solo exhibitions at Il Capricorno in Venice,
Italy, and Margo Leavin Gallery in Los Angeles, and has participated in
group exhibitions in museums and galleries across Europe and the United
States. Concurrent with the exhibition at D'Amelio Terras, her work will
appear in Masquerade at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Wisconsin and
in ContemporaryArtProject at the Seattle Art Museum in Washington. She
received an MFA in painting from UCLA in 2000.
Opening Reception: Saturday, November 16, 6-8 PM
For press and visuals requests, please contact Brian Sholis at 212.352.9460
D'Amelio Terras represents Polly Apfelbaum, Erica Baum, Delia Brown, Tony
Feher, Joanne Greenbaum, Glenn Ligon, John Morris, Rei Naito, Rika Noguchi,
Damián Ortega, Cornelia Parker, Miguel Rio Branco, Karin Sander, Joe
Scanlan, and Yoshihiro Suda.
D'Amelio Terras
525 West 22nd Street NY 10011
New York