Julie Langsam "Of Other Spaces"
Frederieke Taylor Gallery
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Julie Langsam's new paintings address issues of style, beauty and idealization by combining images that reference the Romantic sublime of the 19th century with 20th century's Utopian ideals of high modernism. Featuring modernist buildings isolated within the landscape of vast skies, the paintings are grounded by abstract minimalism. Julie Langsam's juxtaposition of iconographic structures such as Le Corbusier's Chapel at Ronchamp, Richard Meier's Atheneum and Eero Saarinen's TWA Terminal, with backgrounds of broad, big sky landscapes associated with Hudson River School painters, alludes to the relationship of the sensuous body with the rational mind. Langsam adds another layer of Utopian idealism by adding abstract elements to the base of the painting which refer to Ad Reinhardt's paintings from the 1950's "Blue" and "Red" series.
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from December 02, 2008 to January 10, 2009
Opening Reception on 2008-12-11 from 18:00 to 20:00