Michael Cavayero "Allure"
Broadway Windows
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Broadway Windows announces an exhibition by Michael Cavayero. The installation is mounted in five windows at the corner of Broadway and East Tenth Street and is lighted 24 hours a day.
Trailing tendrils of multi-colored hair become the painterly focus of an alluring yet enigmatic portrait series. Each canvas offers an enticingly detailed rear-view of a woman's coiffure with particular attention paid to ornamentation and styling. Tinted tresses might be casually swept up, or even cascade like fast-flowing water. And one flirtatious siren offers a tangled mane playfully bedecked with extensions and accessories.
Cavayero sees this work as the natural descendent of Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama's continued preoccupations with close patterns and repetitive gesture. He adds: "My paintings obsess over a formal device--the line ... to find abstraction in a very strange place, the back of girls' heads. Derived from photographs, movies and dreams, they are aggressive formal enterprises that hold quiet, intense presences. Each [provokes] an anxiety in the viewer who is unable to penetrate the mind of the sitter, but rather, gets caught in the surface of the hair."
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from October 10, 2008 to November 23, 2008