Ophrah Shemesh "I and Thou"
Freight and Volume
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For her first solo exhibition at Freight + Volume, and her third in New York, Israeli-born Ophrah Shemesh will present a selection of new large-scale paintings that offer themselves as complex and eroticized explorations of the gaze. The arresting psychology of her pictures evokes the effects of predecessors and contemporaries alike, such as Renoir, Balthus, Kitaj and Clemente. Her emotionally charged scenarios of women - aloof, vulnerable and seductive - are carefully rendered using a fresco-like palette and a chalky buildup of painted surface.
[Image: Ophrah Shemesh "Does the Meeting Come About" (2004-2007) oil and egg emulsion on linen, 96 x 60 inches]
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from February 23, 2008 to March 29, 2008