“I Want Love” Exhibition
ROX Gallery
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“Love must be as much light as it is flame. There is no remedy for love but to love more.” - Henry David Thoreau
Taking Henry David Thoreau’s quote as its point of departure, the group show I WANT LOVE at ROX Gallery showcases classic and contemporary works exploring themes of love, obsession and excess. All pieces - some darker in their content than others - gather beneath the overarching rubric of love.
Suzanne C. Nagy’s bold and colorful LED enflamed heart sculptures are a dazzling lure for joy and hope, contrasted by the quiet regality of 16th and 17th Century European tapestries depicting cupid.
Jonathan Rosen’s meticulously crafted series of twelve large-scale collages entitled I WANT embody the labor of love and/or love as labor. Developed over several years of collecting objects and stories, these works have universal resonance around questions of success, failure and desire. In this series, Rosen stages late Capitalist hunger in a sometimes playful, and at other times tragic way.
A darkly playful underbelly of romantic love rears its head in Andrew Cornell Robinson’s abject sculptures. In Centerpiece I, an ice cream sunday of bodily organs fill a drinking goblet. The viewer is unsure as to whether they should eat it, or find the lover whose heart has been ripped out. These unsettling trophies fool around with thresholds of comfort, boldly questioning whether love is necessarily a transaction of trust.
— Charlotte Farrell
I WANT LOVE is co-curated by ROX Gallery Director Emerald Fitzgerald and Tom Smith.
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Schedule
from February 14, 2014 to March 06, 2014
A special Valentine's event February 14th.
Opening Reception on 2014-02-20 from 19:00 to 22:00
Artist(s)
Amanda Charchian, Ahmet Civelek, Andrew Coslow, Jordan Doner, Jon Dos, Elliot Goldstein, Jenni Hiltunen, Sean Ono Lennon, Suzanne C. Nagy, Elizabeth Peyton, James Powers, Amy Pryor, Andrew Cornell Robinson, Jonathan Rosen, Max Snow, Bert Stern, Spencer Tunick, Marianna Uutinen, Natalie White