FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Goliath is pleased to announce:
Ripe and Hazy
Organized by Mark Keffer
April 21-May 6, 2001
Opening Reception: Saturday April 21, 7-10 pm
*Click on the artist names to view images.
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A particular, contemporary strain of the abstraction/representation issue seems presently in the air and is the subject of this show. Often, this work, takes the form of renderings of things that don't exist in the material world. At other times, if functions as nearly-known hybrids of elements. In either case, the work is not dependent on past models of image making and can present new avenues for exploring cognitive processes inherent in the area of perception/recognition. As the title suggests, there is an expectant, open quality to this work. It is as if the imagery-like consciousness itself-is perpetually coming into clarity.
Among the artists in the show, Amanda Church's work stands as a prime example of imagery halted in the process of coming into clarity. Her painting transfer elements from everyday life and popular culture into forms of seamless clarity that both exploit and transcend their prosaic associations. The sources become obscured as the images are refined into mutable symbols-open-ended forms with no limit to their interpretation.
Gary Petersen brings a special brand of evocative humor to the show. As Bill Arning has stated, "Petersen's foregrounded forms are the easiest to see as in-motion sentient critters's candy-colored, thickly outlined shapes, chubby and huggable with lumpen protuberances, they are figurative but in a most Rorschachian mode."
With her formal finesse and ripe imagination, Jovi Schnell "has developed a refined, schematic image in which all of the abstract elements seem to function as part of a mechanical or syntactical system. The compositions often suggest scientific instruments or domestic appliances Schenll performs a rather dexterous balancing act." (Gerard McCarthy, Art in America)
Contact: Erik Guzman, Mayumi Hayashi 718-389-0369, or Mark Keffer 718-486-6607
Gallery Hours: Saturday & Sundays 1-6pm and by appt.