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9/5/2002

Ansuya Blom, Chie Fueki

Bill Maynes Gallery, New York

For her first showing at the gallery (and her first solo gallery exhibition in the U.S.), Dutch artist, Ansuya Blom, will present three large-scale drawings from the late 1990s, along with five newer, smaller gouache drawings on ink jet prints, as well as a short film in DVD format.

In her film, entitled Cowboys and Indians: Chapter Three, Ms. Blom’s camera eye follows an attenuated course through the anonymous, and keenly foreboding, hallways of a vast Manhattan apartment complex, accompanied by a disembodied guide, whose hushed, plaintive voice gently reassures the camera through the slowly dissolving labyrinth.

In her drawings, The House of the Invertebrates, Ms. Blom overlays stills from her film with an opaque web, skeletal in presence, which suspends across the space like an archeological obstruction. Through a blend of image merged with process, Ms. Blom creates unexpectedly un-fixed spaces that are both tentative and expansive.

Ansuya Blom’s exhibition is made possible through the generous support of the Mondriaan Foundation, Amsterdam.

Also showing for the first time, Chie Fueki, who was born in Japan, and grew up in São Paolo, Brazil, will present five large collage paintings, each combining various media on mulberry paper. These works, luxuriantly colored, and worked in a rigorously pointillist technique, elucidate the various themes which occur throughout Ms. Fueki’s oeuvre: the subtle use of figure as landscape; bold, resplendent iconography; romantic love for family and nature; perseverance (as symbolized in the overall patterning of chrysanthemums, a flower which grows late into the wintertime, underneath the snow); an awareness of death and impermanence; and a profound respect for the tradition of Japanese craft.

Image: Chie Fueki, Astrea 2002, mixed media

Bill Maynes Gallery
529 West 20th Street New York

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