David Fertig and Lori Taschler
dal 14/2/2003 al 23/3/2003
Segnalato da
14/2/2003
David Fertig and Lori Taschler
James Graham and Sons, New York
Fertig's boldly rendered oil paintings depict battle scenes relating to the Napoleonic era. Fertig represents specific events, but the prevailing themes of his painterly canvases are action and emotion. Taschler creates quiet interiors. In her faux-naif oil paintings on board, ordinary objects in vacant rooms achieve an odd, iconic heft. Her spare compositions focus on such solitary items as a frameless mirror, a blank television, or closed doors.
JG | Contemporary, a department of James Graham & Sons, is pleased to present recent figurative paintings by David Fertig and Lori Taschler in its uptown gallery at 1014 Madison Avenue. There will be a reception on Thursday, February 13, from 6 to 8 pm. A concurrent exhibition of works by Geoffrey Swindell will be on view at JG | Contemporary's Chelsea space at 505 West 28th Street. David Fertig's boldly rendered oil paintings depict battle scenes relating to the Napoleonic era. Large galleons clash in plumes of cannon smoke, and groups of soldiers and horsemen engage in combat. While these exalted moments of conquest and defeat call to mind the Romanticism of Delacroix and Gericault, Fertig's loose, energetic brushwork has its roots in modernist abstraction. Fertig represents specific events, but the prevailing themes of his painterly canvases are action and emotion. While Fertig portrays historical dramas, Lori Taschler creates quiet interiors. In her faux-naif oil paintings on board, ordinary objects in vacant rooms achieve an odd, iconic heft. Her spare compositions focus on such solitary items as a frameless mirror, a blank television, or closed doors. Occasionally, a bluntly rendered figure inhabits austere surroundings. Thickly painted in muted colors, Taschler's works hover between Minimalist abstraction and haunting still life. David Fertig was born in Philadelphia in 1946 and is based in New Jersey. He shows regularly with the Paul Thiebaud Gallery in San Francisco. His last New York solo show was held at Tatistcheff in 2000. Lori Taschler was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1959, and lives and works in Manhattan. Recent exhibitions include a 2001 solo presentation at Eyewash Gallery in Williamsburg, and a two-person show at Jay Grimm Gallery, New York, in 1999. She was featured in the JG | Contemporary booth at the 2002 Affordable Art Fair in New York.
Image: Lori Taschler, untitled 2002, Oil on wood 11 x 12 inches
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