Orly Genger "Big Open Empty"
Larissa Goldston Gallery
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Big Open Empty is Genger’s first exhibition dedicated to works on paper. While the creation of drawings and collage has always been essential to her studio practice, the large-scale drawings in this exhibition take on the attributes of the artist’s sculptures. Wrestling with the wall sized sheets of paper in her studio, Genger creates dense, often monochromatic visual fields filled with images of writhing limbs, suggesting not only the physicality of her own herculean efforts but also issues of struggle and dominance.
Genger relates her large-scale sculptures to drawings in space. These immense forms begin with single lengths of rope repeatedly knotted to generate bulk and form. The massive drawings are built up in a similar additive process; layers of linear ink marks suggest depth while embracing the flatness of the pictorial plane.
Appropriating imagery from comic book superheroes, the drawings simultaneously convey a sense of both mischievousness and genuine discord. The titles of the six drawings allude to traditional sources of conflict while embracing the ambiguous and often farcical nature of these issues.
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Schedule
from May 06, 2011 to July 01, 2011
Opening Reception on 2011-05-06 from 18:00 to 20:00