NYAB Event - Teresa Dunn "but the winds come anyway..."

Teresa Dunn "but the winds come anyway..."

First Street Gallery

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First Street Gallery presents Teresa Dunn's debut in New York City with her one person exhibition but the winds come anyway.... Dunn's dynamic narrative figure paintings explore identity and relationships through the absurd. Animals, food, and objects are as critical as the people in these stories by becoming symbolic, metaphorical or characters themselves. The peculiar reality Dunn constructs seems normal to those engulfed within, as in dreams or memory. Amidst bizarre sequences of events, dreams are believable when we are immersed in them. Memories distort, dissolve, and rearrange themselves so that we are unable to discern fact from invention. Awareness of this disconnect in perception allows the viewer to unearth challenging concepts around identity and communication. Whether time is linear, cyclical, or removed from logical progression, one thing is certain: Change. How life shifts is absurd. Dunn's large and small scale paintings investigate ways we navigate ourselves through life, environment, and our psychological eccentricities. Sculpting intimate interactions for better or worse, human fallibility, anticipation, and intention are quietly nudged by the inevitability of time. Seasons, relationships, jobs, and cities attempt to define Dunn's storytelling. Peculiar occurrences, symbolism, and metaphor tie together some loose ends and fray others.

[Image: Teresa Dunn "Introducing my other half" (2010) Oil on linen 40 x 66 in.]