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3/5/2002

Two solo show

Charles Cowles Gallery, New York

Beatrice Caracciolo:
New Works
May 4 - June 15, 2002

The work of BEATRICE CARACCIOLO explores the potential of line to record the expressiveness of motion. Her drawings have been called compromises between the controlled and the uninhibited, and they indeed combine a refined sensorimotor intelligence with a fearless artistic hand. In this new body of work she explores landscape and figural markings that hint at representation, but leave the subject undefined.

Her calligraphic forms have an intuitive facility. Line is born from the impossibility of being traced in any other manner, she explains. A closer look at the drawings depth of surface and careful compositions reveal CARACCIOLOs formal training and the deliberateness with which she creates her work.

CARACCIOLO works with crayon, charcoal and graphite on paper wet with a mixture of glue and pigment. As the surface dries, her gestural lines become fixed to the paper, capturing the immediacy of her drawing method. Far from being simple lines on paper, CARACCIOLOs completed strokes have a distinct presence that imbues the shadowy space in her drawings with a subtle energy.

BEATRICE CARACCIOLO lives and works in Paris where she has also previously exhibited. Her work is included in private collections in both Europe and the United States. CARACCIOLO, Italian, was educated in New York. This exhibition is her second solo show at Charles Cowles Gallery.

An illustrated catalogue including An Auroral Script by Gustaf Sobin is available for sale.

Image: a work by Beatrice Caracciolo

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Manuel Neri:
Gesture Studies
May 4 - June 1, 2002

Known for his expressive interpretation of the female body in both sculpture and painting, MANUEL NERI created works on paper between 1978 and 1980 that reverse his usual working method. Here, his typical collaboration with a live model is abandoned for photographed poses found in magazines. NERI invents the bodies underneath the clothes by painting over the glossy pages. In some pieces, he obliterates any reference to the source image with his superimposed nudes, but in others, details from the figure or props show through to complete his compositions.

A member of the Bay Area Figurative School, which includes artists such as Richard Diebenkorn and David Park, MANUEL NERI has been exploring the human figure in diverse mediums such as marble, bronze, plaster, graphite and oil-stick for nearly fifty years. In his graphic works as well as his sculptures, the balance NERI maintains between change and permanence, verisimilitude and raw materiality gives his work its striking vitality.

MANUEL NERI has exhibited extensively in Europe and the United States, where he has been the subject of numerous retrospectives. His work is included in prominent public collections including, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, and the San Diego Museum of Art.

The exhibition will be on view at the Charles Cowles Gallery, 537 West 24th Street, between 10th and 11th Avenues in Chelsea.
Hours are 10am to 6pm, Tuesday through Saturday.

There will be a reception for the artists on Thursday, May 2 from 6-8 pm.

For further information or photographs, please contact the gallery.

Charles Cowles Gallery
537 West 24th Street, between 10th and 11th Avenues in Chelsea

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