"Exposed" Exhibition
The Muriel Guépin Gallery
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Muriel Guépin Gallery presents "Exposed" a new group show featuring the artwork of: Andrea Dezsö, Donald Graham Hershey & Rogelio Manzo.
Interested primarily in human forms as a vehicle to penetrate human psychology and reveal their true character, these artists all work with different medium -such as embroideries to reveal personal experiences with social myths and family pressures- or use deceptive delicate works that reveal unsettling tension of human existence.
Andrea Dezso received Best show in The Village Voice 2007. A visual artist and writer work across a broad range of media including drawing, artist's books, cut paper, embroidery, sculpture, site-specific installation, animation and large scale public art.The Transylvanian-born Dezsö has embroidered dozens of her mother's sayings and arrayed them along the close-set walls of a maze-like corridor. Andrea Dezsö has shown her work in museums and galleries around the world.
Donald Graham Hershey's drawing and video works memorialize the intangible world with tangible elements slowly procured from a sensualist's unconscious. Hershey's work eludes one emotional impact. Often rendered in pencil on off-white paper, his drawings explore corporeal disconnections, narrative fragments, and manifestations of distant memory all imbued with a characteristic darkness. Hershey's drawings are not typically ornamental - sometimes depicting a singular part of a figure, a lone garment, or an aura engulfed by a graphite sfumato. They are deceptively delicate works that reveal unsettling tension without the slightest use of gore or camp. The series is part of the artist's ongoing investigation on the effects of corporate and mass media aesthetics, primarily packaged beauty and the individual's perception of identity.
In most of his works, Rogelio Manzo places the figures in the foreground with rarely a sense of an environment. Thus, the viewer is forced to focus on the fragmented visages and figures that are painted with an expressionistic fervor. The surfaces of these works range from thick impasto to thin washes, worn and scratched areas to realistic hand painted hints of skin, flesh and bones, and sleek digital image transfers. This treatment adds to the sensation of his subjects being flayed to reveal their innermost feelings. Manzo's preferred format of squares, often as large as 6' x 6', are painted on resin panel and canvas. Manzo also focuses the viewer's attention on the anguished faces and bodies. His palette of tones of black, brown, gray, and a blood red adds to the feeling of bleak reality. As perhaps accents of optimism, occasional hits of dandelion yellow, sky blue, or cardinal red brightens his palette.
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Schedule
from January 13, 2012 to February 26, 2012
Opening Reception on 2012-01-13 from 18:30 to 20:00