Tim Noble and Sue Webster “Blind Painting”
The Suzanne Geiss Company
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Blind Painting, a solo exhibition of automatic paintings by Tim Noble and Sue Webster, will be the artists’ first New York solo show since 2008. Known for their sculptural shadow portraits built from bones, detritus, and cast body parts, the artists engage codependent opposites like intimacy and alienation, sex and violence, and high and low culture.
Noble and Webster continue to explore cultural and psychological paradoxes through a new set of constraints in a new medium. For their “Blind Paintings,” the artists voluntarily blindfold themselves to make portraits of each other from memory, surfacing tensions between familiarity and strangeness, control and chaos. Like the Surrealist’s game of exquisite corpse, in which players collectively assemble a drawing by following absurd instructions, Noble and Webster welcome the effects of accident and the subconscious in their work. The series is comprised of large black and white paintings as well as smaller works on paper that the artists painted with their feet.
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Schedule
from November 13, 2014 to December 20, 2014
Opening Reception on 2014-11-13 from 18:00 to 20:00