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11/1/2001

Donna Moylan - Alejandra Icaza

Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York

Nicole Klagsbrun is pleased to present paintings by Donna Moylan in the main gallery and works on paper by Alejandra Icaza in the project room.

Donna Moylan’s new paintings defy the scope of most definitive art historical traditions. Her intimate landscapes are at once fierce and delicate; filmy waves of color set the background for stark, thinly dark subjects. Apes, birds, and foliage appear in the midst of turmoil and cosmos as though suddenly engendered there.

These layered canvases depict the formation and elusive exile of civilization by fusing nature and time, investing history with a sense of immediacy. A careful eye can detect the layers of meaning, unfurling textures and colors that mask the canvas.

In this manner, Moylan extracts our viewer-participation. One might confront the canvas as a mirror of distorted reality, or read paint like words on a page. Her paradoxical configurations offer no certain truth while they lend narrative to vast open spaces.

This is Donna Moylan’s second solo show at Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery. Last year she participated in "Twenty-five American Painters" at Campo & Campo in Antwerp, Belgium, and has shown at Galleria Sperone in Rome as well as Esso Gallery in New York City, where she lives and works.


Alejandra Icaza’s patchwork collages make up a plethora of panoramic construction. She has pasted to cardboard bits of paper and synthetic fibers, pieces of memorabilia, to produce re-collection like a journal or scrapbook. In effect, Icaza devises a painterly approach toward the process of quilting.

The freedom of movement characterizing her work is best shown in Icaza’s uses of media and color symmetry. Square and rectangular surfaces overlap to form large-scale textures that turn glittery and playful. She experiments with the genres of landscape and collage - one evolving from history long past, the other more newly born - to coax alternative approaches from traditional media.

Alejandra Icaza was born in Bilbao, Spain, where she presently lives and works. She has shown most recently at Galeria Marta Cervera in Madrid and Sala Rekalde in Bilbao, and participated in "Hanging," a 1998 painting exhibition at Galerie Camargo Vilaca in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

For more information, please contact the gallery.

526 WEST 26TH STREET, ROOM 213, NEW YORK, N Y 10001
T 212.243.3335 F 212.243.105

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