Rosemarie Fiore
dal 19/10/2006 al 23/11/2006
Segnalato da
19/10/2006
Rosemarie Fiore
Plus Ultra Gallery, New York
House of Fiction. Fiore has synthesized a broad range of her earlier imagery, much of it culled from mechanically generated gestures and innovative vocabularies she developed in projects where she painted with everything from lawnmowers to pinball machines, and windshield wipers to live fireworks.
House of Fiction
Winkleman / Plus Ultra Gallery is very pleased to present House of Fiction, our
second solo exhibition by New York artist Rosemarie Fiore.
Known for her experimental use of materials and technology in her paintings, Fiore
employs more established techniques for her newest series. Within six landscape oil
paintings, Fiore has synthesized a broad range of her earlier imagery, much of it
culled from mechanically generated gestures and innovative vocabularies she
developed in projects where she painted with everything from lawnmowers to pinball
machines, and windshield wipers to live fireworks.
Balanced in each painting are signifiers of construction interfacing with indicators
of destruction (explosions, guns, industrial waste, etc.). The construction
indicators reflect Fiore’s decision not only to assemble her previously invented
imagery, but to build from them new narratives combined with plein air observations.
This juxtaposition of construction and destruction, allows Fiore to continue her
exploration of violence and technology in the context of art making and serves as
commentary on what she sees from her vantage point. Conceptually, Fiore here allows
her earlier series--in which the artist’s hand was intentionally removed from the
process--to serve as investigative studies for her oil paintings, in which she
controls every decision and builds narratives far more complex than she could with
automated mark making—-a decidedly anti-Duchampian impulse.
Also in the exhibition are the latest in Fiore’s ongoing series of fireworks
drawings. These large works on paper are made by exploding and containing live
fireworks, resulting in bursts of saturated color that Fiore overlaps and collages
into gorgeous abstract compositions.
Opening Reception: Friday, October 20, 6-8 PM
Winkleman / Plus Ultra Gallery
637 West 27th Street - New York
Hours: Tuesday thru Saturday, 11am to 6pm or by appointment.
Directions: C or E train to 23rd Street. Walk North to 27th Street. Plus Ultra is
between 11th and 12th Avenues.