Luke Stettner “time, women, stars, death, sleep, flowers, life, eyes, a river, dreams”

Kate Werble Gallery

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Luke Stettner’s second solo show with the gallery is titled time, women, stars, death, sleep, flowers, life, eyes, a river, dreams.

There are two central themes at the heart of this exhibition. The first is time and the record-keeping devices we implement to measure its passing. The second is the literary device of metaphor, which exists to find symbolic and abstract affinities between subjects.

Each work in the exhibition is a collection. There are no ‘singular’ objects; rather, as with the tenor and vehicle that make up a metaphor, every element exists to inform and complete the other, ultimately creating an internal, cooperative logic between sets. The works flirt with blankness as content, alluding to both the vacuum of memory and the difficulty, (if not impossibility), in describing subjective feelings through language and imagery.

Luke Stettner (b. 1979 in Alpine, NJ) received his BFA from the University of Arizona (2002) and his MFA from the School of Visual Arts (2005). He attended the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture in 2010, and he was a recipient of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Workspace residency in 2013. Stettner has held solo exhibitions at The Kitchen, New York, NY (2014), Kate Werble Gallery, NY (2011) and Stene Projects, Stockholm, SW (2012, 2010). His work has been exhibited at venues including MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA; deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson, AZ; Wolfsonian Museum, Miami, FL; Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY; Exit Art, New York, NY; Hilary Crisp Gallery, London, UK; and 179 Canal, New York, NY. Stettner will have a performance at The Kitchen on May 9th in collaboration with Boru O’Brien O’Connell. He currently lives and works in Boulder, CO.

[Image: Luke Stettner “Untitled #1” 2014, B/W Inkjet photograph]

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Schedule

from February 21, 2014 to April 12, 2014

Opening Reception on 2014-02-21 from 18:00 to 20:00

Artist(s)

Luke Stettner

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