Artists
Space
Benjamin
Edwards, The Monuments of Passaic, 2002, mixed media on canvas,
Courtesy of Artemis Greenberg Van Doren Gallery
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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
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Painting As Paradox
Curated by Lauri Firstenberg
Simon Aldridge, Ellen Altfest, Augusto Arbizo, Jan Baracz, Roberto
Bermejo, Sebastian Blanck, Mark Bradford, Jane Callister, Karlos
Carcamo,
Carolyn Carr, Matt Chansky, Jose Leon Cerrillo, Nayda Collazo-Llorens,
Elizabeth Conlon, Claire Corey, Maria Cruz, Jay Davis, Andrea DeFlorio,
Mary Doherty, Carl Eckhoff, Benjamin Edwards, Judith Eisler, Karel Funk,
Michael Gibson, Frantiska + Tim Gilman, Inaki Gracenea, Isca
Greenfield-Sanders, Terry Haggerty, Brad Hampton, Marc Hadelman, Janice
Handleman, Ellen Harvey, Millree Hughes, Minako Iwamura, Sunny Kim,
Kieren
Kinney, Carla Klein, Dorota Kolodziejczyk, Mara Korkola Evan Lintermans,
Valentina Loi, Octavius Neveaux, David Nicholson, Odili Donald Odita,
Graham Parks, Michael Phelan, Thomas Pihl, Seth Price, Nathaniel Quinn,
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 experimental exercise in synthesizing
research
of the eclectic practices of young emerging artists grappling with
various
fraught legacies of painting. Their work often reflects a continual
gesturing towards tradition and 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.
Impacted by the specter of both historical and contemporary precursors,
the work represented in the show often 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, primarily 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
show
focuses on over fifty emerging artists whose work reveals contradictions
within individual practices, but particularly the visual and conceptual
tensions between disparate contemporaneous productions. Hung
salon-style
to reflect the sheer proliferation of production and the eruption of
traditional genres, the task of this show is to represent, not to
reconcile, disparate levels of production in a singular condensed space.
A catalogue will be available.
For further information please go to: http://www.artistsspace.org/
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