Larissa Bates "Man Enough"
Monya Rowe Gallery
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Monya Rowe Gallery presents a solo exhibition of paintings, drawings and video by Larissa Bates titled Man Enough.
An essay by Stefanos Geroulanos titled Struggle, Ground, State of Nature accompanies the exhibition.
Perched as they are up against each other, one wonders if figure and ground ever meet. "Figure" in the present case stands for anyone or more of a set of characters, some of them muscular male wrestlers, calm amidst an artful struggle with one another, others small figures facing the viewer, saddened, almost cartoonish, tense, multiplied. And as "ground" we find majestic landscapes, mostly adopted and adapted from large-size landscape paintings or Japanese ukiyo-e style paintings. Larissa Bates' art lies in the crevice and struggle between the two: figure and ground never quite form a whole except in their disjunction, their non-belonging...
Please visit www.monyarowegallery.com to view the full essay by Stefanos Geroulanos.
Stefanos Geroulanos teaches European intellectual history at New York University and is the author of “An Atheism that is not Humanist Emerges in French Thought” (Stanford, 2010).
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Schedule
from November 18, 2010 to January 08, 2011
Opening Reception on 2010-11-18 from 18:00 to 20:00