Three exhibitions
dal 11/9/2003 al 25/10/2003
Segnalato da
11/9/2003
Three exhibitions
Feigen Contemporary, New York
Solo shows by Graham Parks and Susan Silton. Environs is an exhibition of selected works addressing the relationships between the natural and built environment, including, architectural renderings, drawings, paintings and photographs.
Graham Parks, Susan Silton, Environs
Graham Parks: New Paintings
Preview Reception: Friday, September 12, 6:00-8:00 PM
Graham Parks’ meticulously crafted paintings of landscapes and architecture are reductive and meditative. There is an iconic opticality to his precise and highly formal images. Creating simplified shapes via a painstaking process of photo-based masking, the resulting pictures conjure places perhaps seen, but almost forgotten.
At times Parks’ palette is vibrant, while at other times muted and closely hued. Confetti-like speckles of pale aqua slowly coalesce into a forest. Trees in black silhouette subdivide a gradient of luminous pinks like moonlit stained glass. Color harmonies are imbued with moods, sometimes actively upbeat, sometimes austerely dark. By contrasting smooth & glossy from textured & matte, his surfaces are accentuated in soft light and shimmer with metaphoric potential. Parks converts anonymous emptiness into occasions for reverie.
Graham Parks lives in Brooklyn, New York. This is his second exhibition at Feigen Contemporary, following a solo exhibition in Tokyo and numerous group shows, including the current Prague Biennial.
Having the clarity of haiku-like abstractions, these spare paintings read quickly yet linger in the mind’s eye like a welcome afterimage.
Susan Silton: Twisters and Twisted
Preview Reception: Friday, September 12, 6:00-8:00 PM
Susan Silton’s “Twisters†are digitally manipulated photographs of tornadoes originally taken by professional storm chasers, which she then reduces to a small, intimate scale, and converts to black & white with a richness and subtlety reminiscent of drawings or a fine silverprint. Long interested in the aesthetics and metaphor of movement, she is known for her colorful Aviate series of streaking abstractions generated from bookplates of birds. Her new tornado images show spectacular spectral funnels that fissure the atmosphere with a concentration of wind-energy and swirling pressures. Milky-white streams puncture a dark enveloping sky and touch the ground in turbulent, body-like, ways.
These precious photographs are juxtaposed against one seven-foot manipulated close-up of a miniature tornado in a jar, a school science project that is created by vigorously shaking simple ingredients. Silton acts out our desire to contain the uncontainable. Her seductive and serene images serve to arrest the uncontrollable violence of nature, adding another chapter to the history of the sublime.
Susan Silton lives in Los Angeles. Her works have been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions internationally, including a recent solo exhibition at SITE Santa Fe.
Environs
Environs is an exhibition of selected works addressing the relationships between the natural and built environment, including, architectural renderings, drawings, paintings and photographs by: Emilio Ambasz, Birds Portchmouth Russum Architects, Frank Breuer, Gregory Crewdson, Doug Hall, Pali Kashi, Jae Shin, Skeet McAuley, Enoc Perez and Doug Wada.
Image: Susan Silton, Twister 3, 2003
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