Massimo
Audiello
Jessica
Watson, Knees, 2001
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SOMETHING
IN COMMON
Jen DeNike, Christine Streuli, and Jessica Watson
December 4 - February 1, 2003
MASSIMO AUDIELLO
526 West 26th Street No.519
New York, NY 10001
212.675.9082 TEL
212.675.8680 FAX
audiello@msn.com
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Massimo Audiello is pleased to present Something In Common,
a group
exhibition featuring the work of Jen DeNike, Christine Streuli, and
Jessica Watson. The exhibition will open on Wednesday, December 4, 2002
and will run through February 1, 2003.
Jen DeNike will be showing photographs from the series Skipping
Stones,
and the video Wrestling. In both bodies of work, DeNike explores
the
components of male eroticism, through elements such as gesture,
landscape,
and sound. In Skipping Stones, the artist, with an eye both
malicious
and innocent, achieves a surreal repetitive enchantment. The video
Wrestling more openly deals with sexual ambiguity.
Swiss-born Christine Streuli presents a series of abstract paintings
where
the subjects, always in a state of movement or displacement, appear
elusive: like the memory of an image, or the left-over of a
deconstructed
pop icon. Whisper-like forms and historical allusions suggest, rather
than
assert, an abstract poetry made up of sensual memories, and traces of
constructs from the social and natural worlds.
Jessica Watsons photographs depict known realities in an unknown way.
In
an awkward, mischievous manner, she seems to poke at the classical
notion
of a still-life. The compositions are both casually designed and
accidental, giving way to multiple interpretations. A subversive
sensuality seems to stand behind the sometimes goofy, at other times
enigmatic images, like a cat sleeping with half-closed eyes.
The works of these three women share in common a lenient presentation of
sensuality, and a thoughtful rebellion against typical portrayals of
sexuality. By disassembling formal constructions, these artists suggest
a
world of open possibility: where the rules are subject to the artists
and
the viewers interpretation. An open invitation for an open mind.
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