Jen Mazza "The Words"
Stephan Stoyanov Gallery
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Stephan Stoyanov Gallery presents The Words by Jen Mazza, her first solo exhibition in New York. The exhibition offers a selection of exquisite small-scale oil paintings of books, each text chosen for its personal and conceptual resonances; a sort of "object biography" playing with the idea of narrative on many levels. For Mazza, the book is the place where the world of ideas and the physical world of objects merge. She comments, "As in painting where form becomes the vehicle for content, the book serves as the support for the text: both visible and invisible, it mediates the experience of reading." And certainly, reading her work is a possibility in the paintings of books opened to reveal minutely painted text or illustrations, while her other book paintings must be judged simply by their covers. The subtle, muted colors echo those in Morandi's oeuvre; the compositions are emblematic -- are these paintings meditations on the text or perhaps a eulogy for the book as object?
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from September 05, 2012 to October 14, 2012
Opening Reception on 2012-09-05 from 18:00 to 21:00