Annelies Strba Exhibition

Jason McCoy, Inc. (Midtown)

poster for Annelies Strba Exhibition

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Exploring the notions of time, history, and collective memory, Strba has approached a large variety of subjects, ranging from the urban landscapes of Kobe, Paris and New York, to intimate portraits and depictions of nature. Her best-known bodies of work, entitled "Shades of Time," "AYA," and "NYIMA," depict her immediate family: her two now-grown daughters, son, as well as several grandchildren. Over the past two decades, she has developed a cohesive chronicle by using photography, digital media and film. Part cosmology and part fairy tale, Strba's works are equally personal and poetically abstract documents of those who have defined her physical and emotional life. Using a digital camera, Strba creates film and still images that she later colors with the aid of computer programs. This digital manipulation provides Strba’s images with a strong sense of painterliness and allows her to abandon naturalism and realist details in favor of complex visual textures. Though Strba might employ technology that is associated with the cool visual language of a technophile New Economy, her work is far from it. Instead, it embraces a sense of otherworldliness known from 19th Century Romanticism or the work of Viennese Expressionist Gustav Klimt, for example, yet without losing its strong contemporary aesthetic.

[Image: Annelies Strba "NYIMA 286" (2006) Inkjet print on canvas 43 1/3 x 65 in.]

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Schedule

from July 22, 2008 to August 15, 2008
Summer Hours: 10 am - 5 pm, Closed on Saturday & Sunday.

Artist(s)

Annelies Strba

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