Adriana Farmiga "Lives"
Newman Popiashvili Gallery
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Adriana Farmiga's show is titled lives; it includes new sculptures and drawings. In this body of work, Farmiga plays the two media off each other. Her watercolors are composed of random yet carefully selected everyday objects, which appear definitively as still lifes. Yet in some cases, she displays the depicted items on the floor in front of the drawings, which forces a subsequent reexamination of object, it's drawing, and the resulting shift in context.
This format creates a similar framework for her sculpture, by provoking a "double-take", where the viewer is compelled to take a second look at the objects that litter our social image bank. At first glance, seemingly benign arrangements of objects, materials and colors abruptly give way to uncanny alternatives - where ideas of hysteria, vulnerability, absurdity, humor, and our interpersonal boundaries are allowed to evolve and mutate.
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Schedule
from January 08, 2009 to February 28, 2009