"Limning" Exhibition
Show Room Gowanus
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Show Room presents Limning, a group show of James Hyde, Anna K.E. and Kate Shepherd.
On view is a new group of works from James Hyde, which continue his painterly investigations of material and image. High gloss porcelain tiles, which Hyde crafted ten years ago during a residency at Greenwich Pottery House, are the support for photographic details of leaves and flowers. These works form, alternately, a soft and angular architecture that is sometimes heightened or subverted by intervening strokes of acrylic paint. Also on view downstairs, “Bird At Redhook” is a 30-minute video in seven short chapters, portraying a series of small incidents observed over a six-week period at a park in Red Hook, Brooklyn. As well as capturing the ambient sounds of wind, sea, the birds and the industrial activity surrounding the park, the sound track of the film centers on the mid-century Jazz great, Charlie Parker by way of a car radio playing Phil Schaap’s daily morning radio program, “Bird Flight”.
Anna K.E. has created an installation for the hallway, which reveals the artist’s harmonious interests in femininity and duality, through consideration of the physical experience of architecture, stage design, and the amplifying effect of color. An inviting wooden archway suspended from the ceiling leads the viewer through a series of sculptural obstacles, which are as composed and certain, as they are ready to split, topple or untie their string restraints. The attention is then repositioned to the nature of the body through a small video projection on the rear of the complementary piece to the opening archway. Here, a sensual, documentarian-style surveys the artist in her studio, topped by a mound of feces.
On view by Kate Shepherd are two hanging sculptures constructed from coat hanger wire. In Forklift, the platonic-shape hangs parallel to the floor of the main room and a portion of the wire is powder-coated a bright yellow. Freed from the association of a figure or a frame, the form becomes more about the delineation of public space. In Angler Frame, the rectangular wire simulating a line drawing is situated parallel to the fully enveloped viewer.
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Schedule
from April 22, 2012 to May 27, 2012