Shirazeh Houshiary "Light Darkness"
Lehmann Maupin (536 W 22nd Street)
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Shirazeh Houshiary's fifth exhibition at Lehmann Maupin features paintings, drawings, sculpture and video animation. Each of the works in "Light Darkness" oscillate and metamorphose constantly, revealing the true nature of the world which is not permanent or concrete, but illusive and changing. Fascinated by repetition dissolving into unfamiliarity, Houshiary constructs her paintings from repeated words, resulting in kinetic, luminous surfaces. "These paintings are very contemplative and encourage the viewer to look within. Here synchronicity is the point of connection between the inner and outer event" Houshiary says of this new body of work. These undulating surfaces created by countless lines produce a web or veil that captures the viewer's gaze. Creating optical illusions in works like Fading Shadow, Houshiary layers the colors similar to the sky at dusk, where the blue of sky mixes with the fading red color of sunlight to appear pink. Within the paintings the shapes disappear and fragment, leaving ordered and chaotic movements simultaneously. The veiling and layering technique allows the possibility to explore space inside the paintings, which dissolve the distinction between reality and appearance.
[Image: Shirazeh Houshiary "Fading Shadow (detail)" (2009) ble and red pencil and white aquacryl on canvas and aluminum panel 106.3 x 74.8 in.]
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Schedule
from April 29, 2010 to June 19, 2010
Opening Reception on 2010-04-29 from 18:00 to 20:00