20/3/2008
Keltie Ferris and Molly Larkey
Sunday, New York
Two-person exhibition. The thought of Odilon Redon are an apt description of the feeling one gets from the paintings of Keltie Ferris. Molly Larkey playfully incorporates in her sculptures elements of formalist abstraction with symbolism.
The gallery is pleased to announce the two-person exhibition of new
paintings by Keltie Ferris and new sculptures by Molly Larkey.
Odilon Redon once said, "My drawings inspire, and are not to be defined.
They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of the undetermined."
The words of Redon are an apt description of the feeling one gets from the
paintings of Keltie Ferris. Only in her case, imagine not music that places
us in this ambiguous realm, but the buzzing pulse emanating from the
headphones of the person seated next to us on a crowded train. Muffled, yet
insistent, this illusive whisper accompanies our daily oscillations, hinting
at a million private experiences. Or more abstractly, imagine the thousand
frequencies that hum in the air, the metrology of electronic pulses that
reverberate in the atmosphere, even in ourselves. - Cheryl Donegan, Artist
Keltie Ferris (b. 1977, Louisville, KY) lives and works in Brooklyn. She
received a MFA from Yale University in New Haven, CT and a BFA from Nova
Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD). She has been included in
exhibitions at Artspace, New Haven, CT; Kinkead Contemporary, Los Angeles,
CA; and Markus Winter, Berlin; among others. Her work has recently been
discussed in L.A. Weekly. She is also the recipient of both a Jacob Javits
Fellowship and a Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant. Her New York solo debut
will be at SUNDAY in the Fall.
Molly Larkey playfully incorporates elements of formalist abstraction with
symbolism. Constructed from a variety of materials, Larkey gives her
sculpture a rainbow treatment of brightly coloured paint, each rough hewn
component compiling as a topsy-turvy monument, inciting both Modernist art
history and hippie psychedelia. With her theatrical assemblages, Larkey
frames these disparate ideas as humorously dysfunctional; relating the
dynamics of power with the festivity of grass roots endeavour. - The Saatchi
Gallery
Molly Larkey (b. 1971, Los Angeles) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She
received a MFA from Rutgers University, New Jersey and a BA from Columbia
University, New York. Her work has been featured in exhibitions at The
Drawing Center, New York; Samson Projects, Boston; and Bobbie Greenfield
Gallery, Santa Monica; among others.
Sunday
237 Eldridge Street, South Storefront
Lower East Side, New York City