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15/4/2005

Jonathan S. Allen

The Dollhaus Art Gallery, New York

Property Prophecy of The Floating Heads

There will be five large scale portraits of female heads drawn in pencil and charcoal dominating the intimate space of The Dollhaus walls. These heads independently float in space on the large paper and fall down into intricate landscapes. You will be drawn into them, they elicit the evisceration of personal and private sovereignty. Love lost, tumbleweeds rolling. A massive and collectively shared mess, dry and expansive charcoal sprawling. The heads of these drawings deepen, and persuade you into their vacant, vacuous gazes. The relics of the trauma are ancient and their world is everywhere, so ingrained that it has become unnoticeable, apathetic, cold, and distant. Come and witness their eye's testify and plead to their emotional felony; reflections? stolen and robbed. The decapitation of an idea, a thought, a feeling. Torn from all roots and wrought with amnesia they sway effortlessly like balloons in the wind as it is fulfilled, the Property Prophecy of The Floating Heads.

Jonathan S. Allen works in his studio in Williamsburg, Brooklyn on large scale portraits. The current portrait series ranges in size from 6ft by 7ft to 9ft by 10 ft. This is his first solo show. His drawings are drawn to an obsessive perfection and unique quality with disturbing yet fascinating concepts.

Opening reception: Saturday April 16th, 2005 8pm-Midnight

The Dollhaus Art Gallery
37 Broadway,
Brooklyn, Ny 11211
Gallery hours: Saturday-Sunday noon-6pm and by appointment only

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