Linda Stojak “Redux”
Stephen Haller Gallery
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Linda Stojak: Redux - the Guggenheim Award-winning painter’s indelible images - an intensely personal art, opens at the Stephen Haller Gallery. Linda Stojak’s splendid fall exhibition was cut short by Hurricane Sandy. And so the gallery presents a return of her paintings, famously characterized by their disquieting beauty.
Stojak deals with feminist issues of power and identity. Suffused with a profound humanity her work is an example of the expressionistic played against the conceptual with a technique both sensual and gestural. Stojak’s paintings have been called “psychological self-portraits.” And in the words of critic Michael Amy: “her figures offer a remarkable evocation of our very lives.
Aside from the underlying narrative impact of the work, Stojak is also focused on quite painterly concerns. Art in America critic Edward Leffingwell has written of Linda Stojak’s paintings that they are “as formally compelling as they are moving.”
Critic Michael Amy has written that Stojak’s paintings give “the illusion of almost intangible flesh, as open as a wound.” He described the “flesh-like surfaces of her pictures” as “rich epidermises filled with the history of their own generation.”
Stojak’s work consists mostly of a solitary figure emerging from a contrasting ground, a field of relentless palette-knife-wide strokes of oil paint obsessively worked and reworked until the brushstroke itself becomes the search for meaning.
[Image: Linda Stojak “FIGURE 78” (2013) OIL, MIXED MEDIA ON CANVAS, 72 x 60 IN.]
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Schedule
from June 06, 2013 to July 13, 2013