Cindy Wright - Mark Fox
dal 20/5/2011 al 8/7/2011
Segnalato da
20/5/2011
Cindy Wright - Mark Fox
Mark Moore Gallery (new location), Culver City
'Reality Can Be the Strangest Fantasy' is a third solo exhibition of new works by Belgian photorealist painter. Wright's oil paintings and large-scale charcoal drawings highlight her expertise in both mediums through eleven exemplary compositions. Simultaneously, the gallery also presents a solo exhibition by New York artist, Mark Fox. Featuring a combination of installation, metalwork and his trademark intricate paper cut-outs, Fox converts the Project Room into a manifold survey of his varying techniques and practices.
Cindy Wright: Reality Can Be the Strangest Fantasy
Mark Moore Gallery is pleased to announce a third solo exhibition of new works by Belgian contemporary photorealist painter, Cindy Wright . Shown together for the first time, Wright's oil paintings and large-scale charcoal drawings highlight her expertise in both mediums through eleven exemplary compositions. Simultaneously, the gallery will also mount a first-time Los Angeles solo exhibition of work by New York artist, Mark Fox . Featuring a combination of installation, metalwork and his trademark intricate paper cut-outs, Fox will convert the Project Room into a manifold survey of his varying techniques and practices.
On the heels of her solo booth at PULSE Contemporary Art Fair (New York), Cindy Wright's latest body of work stays true to her exalted practice of art historical allusion and modern abstraction. Wright draws from her immediate environment to create organic, visceral and shockingly lifelike imagery. Often confronting the viewer with notions of transience, mortality and the ephemeral, Wright's graphic vignettes are paradoxically brimming with ambiguity and familiarity. Rendered in Wright's signature cropped framework, her charcoal illustrations intensify her subjects’ obscurity through a smudging and blurring of monochrome and atmospheric gray. Through the quiet beauty and inevitable intrigue that anchors Wright’s work, the viewer's understanding of perception is challenged as her pieces betray your trust, dissolving from astonishing photorealism into painterly brush strokes. Her adept ability to devise visual and conceptual push/pull effects is without equal. At once representational and abstract, alluring and grotesque, life and death, latent and manifest, Wright manipulates a palpable tension while simultaneously enticing the view to explore its intricacies. With a nod to the Dutch and Flemish tradition of vanitas, nature morte and still life underpinnings in Western art, Wright's subjects are transformed into intimate meditations on our own corporeality.
A three-time recipient of the Jim Henson Foundation Project Grant, Mark Fox oftentimes turns a discerning eye upon socioeconomic, political and theological texts and occurrences. Grappling with issues of consumerist accumulation, authority of cultural scripture and fixed meaning, Fox debunks the constructed validity of historically strict paradigms. Passages that once indicated pedantic definitions of right/wrong, good/evil, black/white are transformed into fragile cloud-like abstractions - a grayish amalgamation of barely legible words reduced to elegant paper forms and billowing masses of verse. In his sculptural "Statue," Fox's penchant for retooling the absolute into the unintelligible takes a slightly less ambiguous turn. Suspended from the Project Room's ceiling, "Statue" floats in hovering winsomeness, tendrils of hand-cut and delicately colored words spill towards the floor like cartoonish captions void of narrator. With linen tape moistened with holy water from St. Patrick's Cathedral, a sawhorse used at the World Trade Center/Freedom Tower construction site and six votive candles topped with earth from the grounds of the U.S. Supreme Court building, Fox deftly alleviates the weight of doctrinally-fueled antagonism, dissension and discordance of recent years, and disarms it by rendering its narratives incoherent.
Born in 1972 (Herentals, Belgium), Cindy Wright received her Masters of Visual Arts in Painting from the Royal Academy for Fine Arts, Antwerp (Belgium). She has since earned solo exhibitions in Amsterdam, Brussels, Antwerp, Los Angeles and Las Vegas, and has exhibited internationally with group shows in New York, Brussels, Rotterdam, Chicago, Athens, London, Madison and others. Her work can be seen in the public collections of the Frederick R. Weisman Foundation (CA), Madison Museum of Contemporary Art (WI), the West Collection (PA), Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego (CA), Las Vegas Art Museum (NV), National Bank of Belgium (Belgium) and the Province of Antwerp (Belgium).
Mark Fox (b. 1963, Ohio) received his MFA from Stanford University (CA). He has had solo exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art (NY), Rice University Art Gallery (TX), Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum (CA), as well as exhibitions in New York, Miami, Detroit, Philadelphia and San Francisco. His work can be found in the public collections of The Museum of Modern Art (NY), Whitney Museum of Art (NY), Albright-Knox Art Gallery (NY), Philadelphia Museum of Art (PA) and the Cincinnati Art Museum (OH), among others.. He is represented by Larissa Goldston Gallery in New York City, where he lives and works. This is Fox's first solo exhibition with the gallery.
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Mark Fox. Statute
Mark Moore Gallery - in tandem with Cindy Wright's solo exhibition - will also mount a first-time Los Angeles solo exhibition of work by New York artist, Mark Fox . Featuring a combination of installation, metalwork and his trademark intricate paper cut-outs, Fox will convert the Project Room into a manifold survey of his varying techniques and practices.
A three-time recipient of the Jim Henson Foundation Project Grant, Mark Fox oftentimes turns a discerning eye upon socioeconomic, political and theological texts and occurrences. Grappling with issues of consumerist accumulation, authority of cultural scripture and fixed meaning, Fox debunks the constructed validity of historically strict paradigms. Passages that once indicated pedantic definitions of right/wrong, good/evil, black/white are transformed into fragile cloud-like abstractions - a grayish amalgamation of barely legible words reduced to elegant paper forms and billowing masses of verse. In his sculptural "Statue," Fox's penchant for retooling the absolute into the unintelligible takes a slightly less ambiguous turn. Suspended from the Project Room's ceiling, "Statue" floats in hovering winsomeness, tendrils of hand-cut and delicately colored words spill towards the floor like cartoonish captions void of narrator. With linen tape moistened with holy water from St. Patrick's Cathedral, a sawhorse used at the World Trade Center/Freedom Tower construction site and six votive candles topped with earth from the grounds of the U.S. Supreme Court building, Fox deftly alleviates the weight of doctrinally-fueled antagonism, dissension and discordance of recent years, and disarms it by rendering its narratives incoherent.
Mark Fox (b. 1963, Ohio) received his MFA from Stanford University (CA). He has had solo exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art (NY), Rice University Art Gallery (TX), Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum (CA), as well as exhibitions in New York, Miami, Detroit, Philadelphia and San Francisco. His work can be found in the public collections of The Museum of Modern Art (NY), Whitney Museum of Art (NY), Albright-Knox Art Gallery (NY), Philadelphia Museum of Art (PA) and the Cincinnati Art Museum (OH), among others.. He is represented by Larissa Goldston Gallery in New York City, where he lives and works. This is Fox's first solo exhibition with the gallery.
Image: Cindy Wright
Opening Reception Saturday, May 21, 6-8pm
Mark Moore Gallery
5790 Washington Blvd - Culver City, CA 90232
Tuesday - Saturday 11-6, and by appointment daily
free entry