NYAB Event - "The Object Direct" Exhibition

"The Object Direct" Exhibition

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At Heskin Contemporary
Media: Painting, Drawing, Sculpture

For the artists in this show, it’s both who shot J.R. and who shot Mister Burns. Equal parts the Pepsi Generation and New Coke, Jimmy Carter and Ronald Regan, the Challenger explosion, the first Gulf War and President Bush. Art today cannot be reduced to an “ism” or single movement. Books entitled "Painting People" and group surveys such as "USA Today," remind us that art has gotten so large that what binds it together are simple comparisons and geographic groupings. These artists are apart of a single generation whose works features a strong presence of the hand. These 15 artists know the 1970s. They know the 1980s. These years formed their foundation for understanding both the real world and the art world. They are also not afraid to allow for the inaccuracies of their hand be apparent. For them, the concept of object exists in the artworks finial state, not in the process in which it was made.