NYAB Event - "Kerosene Garden" Exhibition

"Kerosene Garden" Exhibition

Able Fine Art NY Gallery

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There is more and more a feeling that what lies beneath the surface is very much inconsistent with how we understand things to be. Call it a hidden agenda, or something that one never wants discovered, or an accident of nature – what ever it is – there are physical, mental and conceptual factors that create real changes that only careful consideration would reveal.
This, as well as many other important internalized factors is what separates the Modern and Contemporary artist from just about anything that came before. The manipulations, the deviations, the hidden meanings have always been there, but it is in the modern era that we see individuals tapping the potential in the knowing and utilizing.
The six artists in this exhibition explore the possibilities, the signs, the symbols and the randomness of our world. Karlos Cárcamo utilizes reconstructive, probing juxtapositions – both physical and conceptual - to move the viewer through a series of questions and statements. As a result, parallel esthetics form, and new concepts coalesce exposing deeper political issues that hide behind the rhetoric.
Choi, Yun-Woo is driven by a deep desire to grasp the universe in all its 14 dimensions. He even questions the world around him, and the possibility that nothing exists as it is perceived. His art is fluid and transitional, focused and expansive as if everything is in constant flux and form is just a passing notion.
Over the past four decades Robert C. Morgan has created many iconic works that reorient everything from art history to advertising. More recently, basic elemental forms have come into play that are organized like an otherworldly language. This connection between symbol and thought is ages old, but seems fresh and alive in Morgan’s manner of working. Casey Roberts’ symbolism is paralleled in his materials used. In painting selected areas with cyanide, scenes that suggest the natural world is damaged and unwell become a little more acrid, yet the beauty in his composition, and the color and representations Roberts’ brings to the fore have an unmistakable calming effect. Eleanor White has put forth mixed metaphors throughout her career. With her latest playing card series, White elevates some of the most common designs to a higher esthetic. Her meticulous approach to art making is another constant in her work, and the addition of more bold, primary colors common to her repertoire brings her work to a new level and appeal. Delving beneath the surface is nothing new to Michael Zansky. He’s created installations that span large room-scapes, to paintings and drawings that culminate into wildly perverse, and other times wonderfully witty vignettes all while challenging the preconceived notions of everything from recorded history to science and religion. In toto and individually, the art presented in “Kerosene Garden” form a realm of curiosi􀆟es that both broaden and banish the preconceptions of our time.

Media

• Painting
• Installation

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