Louie and Drake
dal 22/3/2001 al 5/5/2001
Segnalato da
22/3/2001
Louie and Drake
Esso Gallery, New York
Jeannette Louie has produced a group of work considered a portrait of subjectivities, specifically American. James Drake will show the sculpture Artificial Life in The Valley of the World, an automobile engine encased in snakeskin...
In the main gallery
JEANNETTE LOUIE
"monochrome (for u.s.)"
In the underground gallery
JEANNETTE LOUIE "Rendering"
For her third solo exhibition at Esso Gallery, Jeannette Louie has produced
a group of work considered a portrait of subjectivities, specifically
American. The series is organized into three main sections (Limited
Warranties, Personals, Ten Commandments) and accompanied by an addendum
(Dullness Blooms).
The works are text-based pencil drawings (inspired by
Chinese clerical calligraphy) and black and white photographs of the same
work installed in a domestic environment that connects them together. The
displacement of the work makes the work itself. The artist considers the
series to be a speculative moment where Walker Evans somehow conversed with
Ed Ruscha. In the underground gallery the artist will present Rendering,
an installation made out of paper, that connects two different points of
view on the idea of perspective; those of Leonardo da Vinci and Frank Loyd
Wright.
Jeannette Louie is the recent recipient of 1999-2000 Prize Fellowship in
Visual Arts at the American Academy in Rome, Italy and at the Roswell
Artist-In-Residence Program, Roswell, NM. Her work has recently becoe part
of the permanent collection of Fondazione Bertero, Turin, Italy.
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In the Bookstore
JAMES DRAKE
Artificial Life in the Valley of the World
For his first exhibition at Esso Gallery, James Drake will show the
sculpture Artificial Life in The Valley of the World, an automobile engine
encased in snakeskin, conjuring the primitive and the modern together with
his most recent photographic work Then the eyes of Adam and Eve were opened
and they knew they were naked., framed in cobra skin, the work is comprised
of two individually framed glass panels each with a single photograph of a
pair of hands.
Born in Lubbock, Texas in 1946, James Drake received his BFA and MFA from
Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles before returning to his native
Texas where he now resides in El Paso. His work has been exhibited in
numerous shows in galleries and museums throughout the U.S., including the
2000 Whitney Biennal at the Whitney Museum, New York; the Corcoran Gallery
of Art, Washington; the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; the Alternative
Museum, New York; La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; Rhona
Hoffman Gallery, Chicago among others. He received the SECA Art Award in
1989 and he is a three-time recipient of grants from the National Endowment
for the Arts. His work can be found in such prestigious collections such
as the Brooklyn Museum; the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian
Institution; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Dallas Museum of Art and the
Phoenix Art Museum among others.
Opening reception: Friday March 23, 6-8 pm
Hours: Tuesday -Saturday 10 am - 6 pm
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