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5/12/2001

Barbara Takenaga

James Graham and Sons, New York

James Graham & Sons is pleased to announce an exhibition of new paintings and drawings by Barbara Takenaga.
The exhibition is her first solo show with the gallery, although her work was featured in last summer’s group show, "Alterations".

The exhibition contains a series of abstract paintings called "Night Paintings", nearly all small-scale works.
These densely worked images consist of repeated circular forms enclosing spiraling lines that are accented by small dots of contrasting color.
The centrifugal, explosive compositional structures of the works combined with a vibrant palate produce op-like shifts and contrasts.
The small, circular elements suggest tiny spiraling Tibetan wheels of life, hairy rosettes, or references to 60's psychedelia.
Based upon a recurring childhood dream of the artist’s, the paintings are creation and, by implication, death images: many small elements become one with, or break apart from, the whole.
For Takenaga, the paintings are primal and yet slightly goofy representations that revise a child's fear into an adult's optimism and reconciliation.

Also in the exhibition are a series of drawings in gouache and ink.
Begun as doodles, they are essentially a more light-hearted/handed treatment of the same ideas found in the paintings, and are more whimsical and cartoonish in their approach.
In these drawings Takenaga moves toward representation and narrative.
For example, references to a bridal veil, a Louise Bourgeoise sculpture, or sprawling, beaded jewelry gone awry appear in the work.

James Graham & Sons
1014 Madison Ave, NY 10021
New York
tel: 212.535.5767
fax: 212.794.2454

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