Jenny Toth "Slipping The Leash"

Soho20 Chelsea Gallery

poster for Jenny Toth "Slipping The Leash"

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This group of work is the result of Toth’s recent months in San Miguel de Allende, a small colonial city north of Mexico City in the state of Guanajuato. The plants (including varieties of cacti), animals (birds, lizards, dogs, farm animals and donkeys), and the stunningly bright colors of the environment permeate Toth’s work enriching her surreal yet personal narratives.
For the past four years Toth makes the annual trip from New York City to San Miguel de Allende in order to paint from the direct observation of these saturated influences. By incorporating animals as subjects, she weaves together fantastical narratives expressing feelings of loss, attachment, social anxiety and loneliness. Her newest pieces have images showing confinement (leashes, fences) and its opposite (freeing of conventional expectations.) These themes are woven together and leavened with humor and imagination.
The collection in this show displays many different media, frequently combining several different techniques in each piece. Toth includes woodcuts and etchings, often printed on cut-out pieces of hand-painted paper, as well as some pieces that are handcolored with watercolor after printing. She collages these prints with drawings, dismantles them, and recombines pieces into unusual combinations. Her work explores ways of isolating fragments, cutting into a form, and leaving parts disjointed.
Also in the exhibition are bronze sculptures highlighting provocative separations. One piece, for example, links two figures: a donkey with a long tail, winding around a girl who herself is transforming into a donkey.

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Schedule

from May 22, 2012 to June 16, 2012

Opening Reception on 2012-05-24 from 18:00 to 20:00

Artist(s)

Jenny Toth

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