Rachel Youens "Cornucopias"
Open Source Gallery
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“Youens regards the tabletop as a place of expansion and Baroque elaboration,where questions of verity and fiction dissolve in imagery that is part of a sequential whole; like stanzas in long poems, having neither predictable beginnings nor definite endings. They speak of poetry, structure, and ragged nature.’ Jim Long
Youen’s paintings find order within disorder. Working from tableaus of still life abundance—foodstuffs and flowers, cloth, wood, and pottery, the fragments of material excess—she translates the asymmetry of objects and allusions into poetic allegories of plentitude and loss, evoking the complexities of affluence and the labor of transformation. Rachel Youens is a graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Brooklyn College, CUNY. She was a Pollock-Krasner recipient in 2005 and a 2008-09 Guggenheim Fellow.
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Schedule
from April 08, 2010 to May 05, 2010
Opening Reception on 2010-04-10 from 19:00 to 22:00