"Works on Paper & Ricci Albenda" Exhibition
Greene Naftali Gallery
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Greene Naftali presents a group exhibition of works on paper by a selection of the gallery's artists and a special presentation by the artist Ricci Albenda. The artists in the show each have a direct engagement with drawing and working on paper, extending the durational, chromatic, and textural limits of the medium. From the conceptual film of Tony Conrad and Josef Strau's lamp constructions to the more exquisitely mannered painted paper collages of Amelie von Wulffen and Richard Hawkins, the show underscores the conceptual and formal diversity of the gallery's program.
Using collage and appropriated imagery, a number of these works invest the flat surface with a web of information, often betraying sculptural, filmic, and painterly interests. In such cases as Rachel Harrison's alterations of credit card advertisements and Michael Fullerton's re-printing of a Gainsborough painting, the artists manipulate the communicative medium of the newspaper. Bjarne Melgaard makes use of the printed image by rephotographing evocative images of young men from the 90's publication Made in the USA and jabbing these into the wall with surgical scalpels around the perimeter of his own suite of pony jesus' drawings. Gedi Sibony utilizes the simple gesture of reversing the matted image of found framed pictures, creating eccentrically revealed readymades. And a new series of paired paintings on paper by Richard Hawkins features striking palettes of color punctuated by paper moons, relating to his recent celestial telegraph paintings which incorporate ideas of theosophy and Indian spiritualism.
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Schedule
from October 22, 2008 to November 22, 2008