Brian Zink
dal 12/1/2001 al 17/2/2001
Segnalato da
12/1/2001
Brian Zink
LFL Gallery, New York
Brian Zink fastens colored Plexiglas pieces to a support, creating fields of repetitive geometric patterns. Metallic green, glittery rust, and gold are dominant colors, recalling a cheap, 1970s-style glamour. Plastic automotive decals are applied to the Plexiglas, giving the field an illusion of depth - a lie that makes the works paintings.
Plastic Paintings.
Brian Zink fastens colored Plexiglas pieces to a support, creating fields of repetitive geometric patterns. Metallic green, glittery rust, and gold are dominant colors, recalling a cheap, 1970s-style glamour. Plastic automotive decals are applied to the Plexiglas, giving the field an illusion of depth - a lie that makes the works paintings.
Gleaming with faux chrome and racing stripes, the pieces read as extracts from a store-bought, white suburban version of Chicano/Latino car culture. These paintings carry the unsurpassed wholeness and sleekness of the factory-produced object, as if their creation was effortless, entirely mechanical - "to evoke a false sense of laziness", according to Zink. The artist has revamped and tricked-out Op Art in a tribute to the seductiveness of American consumerism and the allure of the fast and cheap.
Brian Zink has exhibited his work at the Julie Saul Gallery, New York; Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston; and Boston Center for the Arts. This will be his first one-person exhibition in New York.
Opening - Saturday, January 13 - from 6.00 to 8.00 PM
Hours - Tuesday throught Saturday - from 11.00 to 6.00
LFL Gallery - 531 West 26th Street, 4th Floor - New York, NY - Tel. 212 6317700 - Fax. 212