NYAB Event - Laura Greengold "Morninghead"

Closes in 29 days
At 33 Bond Gallery
Media: Painting

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Greengold’s work traverses that twilight between waking and dreaming, a place that captures what Kafka called "a view of life in which life would both retain its ponderous rise and fall, but at the same time, be perceived as a nothingness, a dream, a hovering in the air." Her brush takes those brief moments of disorientation that arrive between a particularly vivid nightmare and the silencing of an insistent alarm clock, and stretches them across a canvas. The larger paintings combine three-dimensional perspectives and the flatness of the collage style, creating layered sets of surreal scenes much like dream sequences. Here, a man operates on a prone woman's midsection, but instead of the usual stitching thread, he uses ribbons; a young woman's legs begin to grow fur; disembodied hands cut salmon for sushi.
However disorienting and erratic the images, the work is in no way vague and meaningless. Many of the works in the exhibition reference either sociopolitical conflicts or historical traumas: for example the Middle Eastern conflict, Abu Ghraib, and the Holocaust. Through a selection of suggestive images, Greengold invites the viewer to guess and perhaps project anxiety, violence, horror and all of the emotions these traumas can generate.

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