Henry Urbach
Architecture
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Gé-Karel
van der Sterren: Darker Gardens
September 12 - October 19, 2002
Henry Urbach Architecture
526 West 26th Street NYC NY 10001
tel: (212)627-0974 e: hua@mindspring.com
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Darker Gardens is the first American exhibition of paintings by
Gé-Karel
van der Sterren. Stained with acrylic and oil, often smooth, sometimes
drippy, his canvases entangle us in a world darkened by fantasies,
dreams
and foreboding. Van der Sterren offers up subjects that seem to embody
temptationnubile adolescent bodies, luscious fruit pastries, animals
grazing in sylvan fieldsand imbues them with a complex emotional
life.
Bodies come eviscerated or bandaged; cakes sag and ooze; landscapes are
overgrown, flooded, or rotting. Van der Sterren's pictures, at once
playful, enigmatic and twisted, present us with an earthly Eden well
into
its Fall.
Gé-Karel van der Sterren was born in the Dutch town of Stadskanaal in
1969
and currently lives and works in Amsterdam. He has exhibited extensively
in the Netherlands and Europe, and his work was the subject of a solo
exhibition last year at the Gemeentemuseum Helmond. His work is held in
numerous public collections, including the Fries Museum in Leeuwarden,
the
ABN/AMRO and Rabobank collections, the Akzo Nobel Art Foundation, and
the
Museum De Lakanhal in Leiden.
This exhibition has been made possible with generous support from the
Mondriaan Foundation, Amsterdam, and the Consulate General of the
Netherlands, New York.
For further information and images, please contact the gallery at (212)
627-0974.
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