Marion Wilson
dal 14/5/2003 al 21/6/2003
Segnalato da
14/5/2003
Marion Wilson
Cheryl Pelavin, New York
Remnants of Luxury in Forbidden Play. The show consists of bronze sculptures of baby dolls, tiny guns, monotypes created in our shop and small resin purses filled with items of emotional intensity for the artist. The theme of Wilson's work is the landscape of childhood play and identity. Although there is much serious content here, there is also a playful, and funny quality to this installation.
Remnants of Luxury in Forbidden Play
Cheryl Pelavin Fine Art is pleased to present artist Marion Wilson in her first solo show in New York City.
The show consists of bronze sculptures of baby dolls, tiny guns, monotypes created in our shop and small resin purses filled with items of emotional intensity for the artist. The theme of Wilson's work is the landscape of childhood play and identity. Although there is much serious content here, there is also a playful, and funny quality to this installation. The subject of childhood is not a new one for Wilson. The artist uses a doll (an anatomically correct newborn used in medical training) that is obviously male and dresses him up in various trims made of lace, beads, chenille etc. The artist says about this issue
"Remnants of Luxury in Forbidden Play" blurs the conventions of play, gender and culture. The life size dolls are dressed in ornate imaginary costumes that reference a hybrid of traditional Eastern and Western bronze statuary and pop culture. They seem "confused" as to their gender in a traditional sense."
In an essay written for this show, curator and writer Donna Harkavy writes:
"Marion Wilson's art traverses the charged, multivalent terrain of childhood and identity. With the eye of a knowing observer, she captures a darkly innocent side of growing up. Her diminutive figures and toy guns inhabit the periphery of such taboo territory as cross-dressing and violence. Of course, within the realm of childhood, aggressive play is playing war and wearing clothes of the opposite sex is simply dressing up. But viewed through an adult perspective, these "innocent" games are tinged by the forbidden."
On May 9, 2003 Distilled Lives a solo show by Marion Wilson opened at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, NY.
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 15, 6-8 pm
Gallery Hours: 11am-6pm, Tuesday-Saturday
Gallery Contact: Rachelle Rae House
Cheryl Pelavin Fine Art / Pelavin Editions 13 Jay Street, New York, NY 10013-2848
Tel: (212) 925-9424 Fax: (212) 431-3037