Two exhibitions
dal 13/1/2006 al 14/2/2006
Segnalato da
13/1/2006
Two exhibitions
Baumgartner Gallery, New York
Aaron Williams' large oil paintings undulate between sebaceous formlessness and rigid, architectonic form. His work suggests human flesh in the process of radical change. Megan Greene's virtuosic white-on-black drawings are reminiscent of X-rays, Victorian naturalist illustrations, and images produced by electron microscopy.
Aaron Williams and Megan Greene
Baumgartner Gallery is pleased to announce two one-person exhibitions by the emerging artists Aaron Williams and Megan Greene. Both employ baroque abstractions of human anatomy that reflect the interplay of mind and body.
Aaron Williams
Aaron Williams’ large oil paintings undulate between sebaceous formlessness and rigid, architectonic form. Exploring the psychology of adolescence and repression, his work suggests human flesh in the process of radical change. The subject matter, which includes the trauma of school shootings and the cosmology of sociopaths, provides the emotional trigger that launches Williams’ intuitive process. According to Williams: “The resulting image of the painting has to affect me in the seminal way that the real world experience of its subject does." Although his paintings do not provide a comfortable sense of moral certainty, they do extend the hope that the mind may be as mutable as the plastic arts - capable not only of erratic mutation but of clarity, transfiguration, and grace.
This is his first one-person exhibition.
Megan Greene
Megan Greene’s virtuosic white-on-black drawings are reminiscent of X-rays, Victorian naturalist illustrations, and images produced by electron microscopy. But the ornate specimens Greene depicts are hybrids of totemic and erotic imagination - part creature, part fetish. Braided hair, voluptuous fabric, feathers, and tribal necklaces are twisted and pulled taut by hard crustaceous arms, gelatinous membranes, and tentacles. Greene sees her drawings as experimental sites where “organic bodies become ghostly, hermaphroditic, and ornamental." The work explores issues raised by cybernetics and bioengineering concerning the future of “nature" and of biological bodies. At the same time, it continues the tradition of vanitas painting, with its mix of delicately balanced elegance and the macabre. Greene’s work is richly nuanced and deliciously ambiguous.
This is her first one-person exhibition.
Opening: Saturday, January 14 6 - 8 pm
Baumgartner Gallery
522 West 24 Street - New York City