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Painting As Paradox
Curated by Lauri Firstenberg
November 7 December 21, 2002
Artists Space
38 Greene Street, 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10013
T.212.226.3970 Ext. 27
F.212.966.1434
Simon Aldridge, Ellen Altfest, Augusto Arbizo, Jan Baracz, Roberto
Bermejo, Sebastian Blanck, Mark Bradford, Monica Bradley, Jane
Callister,
Karlos Carcamo, Carolyn Carr, José León Cerrillo, Matt Chansky,
Nayda
Collazo-Llorens, Elizabeth Conlon, Claire Corey, Maria Cruz, Jay Davis,
Andrea DeFlorio, Mary Doherty, Tim Doud, Carl Eckhoff, Benjamin Edwards,
Judith Eisler, Karel Funk, Michael Gibson, Frantiska + Tim Gilman, Inaki
Gracenea, Isca Greenfield-Sanders, Terry Haggerty, Perry Hall, Brad
Hampton, Marc Handelman, Janice Handleman, Ellen Harvey, Millree Hughes,
Minako Iwamura, Sunny Kim, Kieran Kinney, Carla Klein, Dorota
Kolodziejczyk, Mara Korkola, Sze Tsung Leong, Evan Lintermans, Valentina
Loi, Octavius Neveaux, David Nicholson, Odili Donald Odita, Graham
Parks,
Michael Phelan, Thomas Pihl, Seth Price, Nathaniel Quinn, Blake Rayne,
Jessica Rohrer, Gabriela Schutz, James Sheehan, John Tremblay, Anton
Vidokle, Kelley Walker, Darren Wardle, Kehinde Wiley, CarrieYamaoka,
Gyoko
Yoshida, Brenda Zlamany
Painting As Paradox is an exercise in synthesizing the research
of
eclectic practices of young emerging artists grappling with various
legacies of painting. Their work reflects a continual gesturing towards
tradition and a concurrent redefinition of painting in contemporary
terms.
Examining the tendencies of artists trying to reconcile the
contradictions and taboos of painting to date, not to mention its
alleged
disappearance and resurgence, this exhibition investigates the measures
taken to maintain the mediums relevance.
Affected by the specter of both historical and contemporary precursors,
the work represented in the exhibition also demonstrates the
re-posturing
of traditional genres within the lexicon of new technologies. This
highly
self-conscious interest in the status of painting, its production,
reception, and circulation, has led to enormous activity. From digital
painting, hybrid painting, non-painting, hyper-figurative painting, and
beyond, it is evident that current artists are in effect initiating a
collapse of categorization.
In light of the current block-buster exhibitions such as Urgent
Painting
at the Musee dArt Moderne de la Ville de Paris or Painting at the
Edge of
the World, Walker Art Center, Painting As Paradox does not
intend to
compete as a survey of present movements in art making. Rather, the
exhibition focuses on over fifty emerging artists whose work reveals
contradictions within individual practices, as well as exposing the
visual
and conceptual tensions between disparate contemporaneous productions.
Hung salon-style to reflect the sheer proliferation of contrary
practices
engaging with painting in literal or negational terms, and to illustrate
the maintenance, yet eruption of traditional genres, the task of this
exhibition is to represent, not to reconcile, disparate levels of
production in a condensed space.
A catalogue is available upon request.
Installation view: 1. Valentina Loi, Boy; 2. Mara Korkola, No Place 38;
3.
Maria Cruz, Untitled; 4. Maria Cruz, Southwest Breeze; 5. Augusto
Arbizo,
Forest I; Augusto Arbizo, Forest II; 6. Dorota Kolodziejczyk, All of the
Above; 7. Jane Callister, Liquid Landscape; 8. Ellen Altfest, The Brook;
9. Blake Rayne, Untitled; 10. Odili Donald Odita, Shockwave; 11. Millree
Hughes, Krill; 12. Michael Phelan, Floating Castle; 13. John
Tremblay,(Molten Rock) Magma (Asphalt Rundown); 14. Jane Callister,
Liquid
Landslide; 15. Michael Phelan, Autumn Maples; 16. Michael Phelan,
Springs
Here; 17. Graham Parks, the division
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