NYAB Event - Rosemarie Fiore “Smoke”

Rosemarie Fiore “Smoke”

Lehman College Art Gallery

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Rosemarie Fiore: Smoke features Fiore’s Fireworks Drawings and Smoke Paintings, two series of dramatic gestural abstractions that are literally the result of pyrotechnics - primarily color smoke bombs whose exhaust Fiore harnesses using machines she creates. Their lush, saturated colors and lyrical passages result ironically from the power of explosions of things which also can include jumping jacks, monster balls, rings of fire, and lasers. For Fiore the fireworks and machines offer another approach to mark-making, an alternative form of paint and brush. In earlier work Fiore has adapted and repurposed familiar machines - waffle irons, hand-held kitchen mixers, Subaru rear window wipers, floor polishers, lawnmowers, pinball machines, and carnival rides - mechanizing the process and opening it up to chance and the unexpected. It is a process that lends itself to performance and, in the instance of the “Smoke Painting” series, involves a rhythmic choreography as she directs the machines. The finished works document her movement and interactions with the paper. Built in a succession of many layers, the drawings undergo revisions and editing as the work evolves, balancing chance with volition and unpredictable variables with aesthetic choice.

Rosemarie Fiore’s work has been shown internationally as well as throughout the United States. Her work has been reviewed in numerous publications including Art in America, Artforum, The New York Times, New York Magazine, The Village Voice, NY Arts Magazine, Art Papers Magazine, The Washington Post, and Art on Paper. Upcoming solo exhibitions in 2015-16 include Von Lintel Gallery, Los Angeles; The Weatherspoon Museum, Greenboro, NC, and the Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY. She is represented by Von Lintel Gallery, Los Angeles.

The exhibition includes Fiore’s large-scale drawings and collages, several of her machines, preparatory sketches, and a video documenting her process. Fiore makes her home and studio in the Bronx in a neighborhood where her grandparents once lived.

Media

• Painting
• Drawing

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