Troy Brauntuch Exhibition
Petzel Gallery
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Friedrich Petzel Gallery presents the second solo exhibition of new work by Troy Brauntuch. The show will feature seven works on cotton and a selection of color photographs. This exhibition continues Brauntuch's investigation into public and private imagery. The artist depicts, for example, the interior of a European dry cleaner or the view inside of a butterfly pavilion with the same cool detachment he employs when picturing the back of his girlfriend's new coat. Drawing white-into-black conte crayon onto the surface of a cotton canvas, the artist produces various kinds of interruptions through this pigmentation between images and their presumed meanings. At first glance, it takes a moment for the viewer's eyes to acclimate and recognize, if at all, these various images or, in other cases, to penetrate the sheer ordinariness of the images depicted. Explanation of what one is seeing is given by the artist through the use of parentheses in his titles, as in Untitled (Butterfly Pavilion). This use of the parenthetical also hints at the process that the artist employs of existing in the interstice between formal abstraction and the concrete image.
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Schedule
from April 18, 2008 to May 17, 2008
Opening Reception: April 18, 6-8pm at 537 W 22nd