Annette Bezor
dal 7/1/2009 al 23/2/2009
Segnalato da
7/1/2009
Annette Bezor
Florence Lynch Gallery, New York
Blush
Florence Lynch Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition by Annette Bezor. The
exhibition is on view from January 8 to February 24, 2009. An opening reception
will be held at the gallery on Thursday, January 8, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m.
For her third one person show with the gallery Annette Bezor presents Blush, a
monumental painting from 2002. The painting was recently exhibited in Uneasy,
Recent South Australian Art at the Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art at the
University of South Australia.
In an essay for the exhibition catalogue the painting was described as follows by
Timothy Morrell:
...Standing beside her immense painting Blush is a disconcerting experience. The
sheer scale is unsettling, but the subject is a test both of artist's skill and the
viewer's nerve. Being in such close proximity to nearly half a square meter of
pubic hair makes people uncomfortable. Blush is like a wall of flesh. Any
blemishes or irregularities have been edited out, and expanse of pale translucent
skin transforms the private indulgence of an erotic fantasy into a public
encounter. The painting reverses the archetypal dream experience of being naked in
public, and puts viewers in the strange situation of having their voyeurism
exposed. The mode's confident but disinterested stare is a variation on the
celebrated gaze of Manet's Olympia, and act of stripping the view bare that has
intrigued Bezor for most of her career.
Born in Adelaide, South Australia, Bezor has exhibited in one person venues at the
Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane; Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide; Nellie Castan
Gallery, Melbourne, Turner Galleries, Perth, Harrison Galleries, Sydney, Robert
Lindsay Gallery, Melbourne; Roslyn Oxley 9 Gallery, Sydney; Contemporary Art Centre,
Adelaide; Luba Bilu Gallery, Melbourne, among others. Selected group exhibitions
include the Grand Palais, Paris; National Art Gallery of Victoria; University of
South Australia Art Museum; SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney. Her work is in many public
and private collections among them, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide;
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; ICI
Collection; and Auckland City Gallery, New Zealand. Bezor graduated from the South
Australian School of Art in 1977.
Opening Reception: Thursday, January 8, from 6:0 to 8:00 p.m.
Florence Lynch Gallery
531-539 West 25th Street - New York
Tuesday through Saturday from 11:00 to 6:00 p.m
Free admission