Emily Eveleth “New Paintings”
Danese Corey
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Danese/Corey presents an exhibition of recent paintings by Emily Eveleth. In
these works, Eveleth continues to explore the ironic and expressive potential of her
signature image, the ordinary and ubiquitous doughnut. In the process, she invests her
subject with unexpected presence and identity, ranging from the literal to the abstract,
from the dramatic to the contemplative – expressing vulnerability, sensuality and humor.
This new body of work further confirms Eveleth’s technical achievements, her mastery of
the intricacies, nuances and demands of painting. It extends her narrative, the doughnut
as a thing of beauty, the very embodiment of pleasure, comfort and self-indulgence. The
doughnuts function simultaneously as still life, landscape, portrait and anthropomorphized
objects of “projected desire,’ eroticism, and in many instances, explicit sexuality.1
Eveleth’s monumental painting Big Pink recalls Matisse’s glorious Large Reclining Nude
(1935) along with the voluptuous physical presence of Ingres’s odalisques in The Turkish
Bath (1862). As much as these are doughnuts, they are not – “Ceci n’est pas une pipe”
(Magritte).
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from March 18, 2016 to April 16, 2016