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21/4/2005

Thaw the yeti

Brooklyn Fire Proof, New York

Group show

Hisham Bharoocha
Jocelyn Shipley
Robert Bryn
Mike Borter
Mindy Markowitz
Alex Barry
Mark Delong
Sam Martineau
Mindy Markowitz

The yeti relies on desire for it’s existence. The promise of a wild man is too delicious to ignore and inhabits every one of us. People wish these things into existence to fill voids in their lives. Aberration fulfilling desire. We yearn for a subhuman, a less than man, something more natural. The yeti is a figment of our imagination fused to a plausible reality. It is this desire for a mythic thing that is more in touch with the natural.

It is the struggle for actualization that is so awesome and surprising. The realizations of new myths happen and map out promises fulfilled, real or otherwise. The yeti, a man suspended outside of civilization, frozen in time and buried by the awe horror stricken doubt of mankind. We can only tell ourselves something if we actualize our yearnings to be outside of ourselves.

Hisham Bharoocha creates kaleidoscopic visions that deny perception through fragmentation. His wall installation is part collage and part painting. Jocelyn Shipley’s idiosyncratic realizations of the monstrous provide a rare glimpse of the hideous and hilarious sub conscious come to life. Sam Martineau achieves an amorphous blend of fiction and abstraction. Robert Bryn maps a terrain of unconscious thought that could be envied by escapists everywhere. Mike Borter integrates image with materiality in which battles are fought between his characters and the surfaces he’s trying to achieve. Mindy Markowitz’s delicately surreal drawings meditate on the possibilities of nature. While Alex Barry’s drawings represent dystopic realization of graphic unjust mutations. Banality becomes a hideous identity in Mark Delong’s work. The most generic form assumes infinite Freudian possibilities. Delong’s images reveal the vulgarities of simple manipulation of obvious archetypes.

10 PM Bonnie Pipkin Presents “The Coffinmaker Workshop”

9 PM Live Music Friday April 29, featuring Dim Diamond, Queens, Will Shine and Soft Circle. $10 door donation.

Opening Reception 8 – 11 PM Friday April 22

Brooklyn Fire Proof, Inc. - 101 Richardson Street - top floor - Brooklyn 11211
Gallery hours : saturday and sunday 1 - 6 PM or call 718 302 4702 for an appointment

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