NYAB Event - Lauren Bergman and Karen Dow "American Fragment"

Lauren Bergman and Karen Dow "American Fragment"

Tria Gallery

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American Fragment features the most recent paintings from artists Lauren Bergman and Karen Dow. While the former's work is figurative and the latter's abstract, they are united in their reference to a mythic America. On view are works from Bergman's Ameritopia series, in which she explores female identity through a lens of tongue-in-cheek nostalgia. Bergman uses the iconic mid-century modern architecture as backdrops emblematic of the collective optimism that pervades American ideology. Dow's abstract work similarly uses the geometry of modern architecture and interior space to deconstruct furniture, rooms and people in a modulated color palette. Speaking to the underlying uncertainty of our current cultural climate, these paintings offer glimpses of life in the American Utopia, if only a fragment, viewed through our own distorted prisms.