Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison "Counterpoint"

Jack Shainman Gallery

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Jack Shainman Gallery presents Counterpoint, Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison's inaugural exhibition at the gallery and their first, and therefore highly anticipated, exhibition in New York since the unveiling of their acclaimed body of work and monograph, The Architect's Brother.

Counterpoint features new photographic works with a painterly edge and sculpture that is both startlingly beautiful and haunting. Abandoning the tightly closed narrative format of their earlier photographic works, the ParkeHarrisons continue to pursue, with the same absorbing psychological and sensory effect, the ever-bleakening relationship linking humans, technology, and nature. This time the works feature an ambiguous narrative that offers equally compelling insight into the dilemma posed by science and technology's failed promise to fix our problems, provide explanations, and furnish certainty pertaining to the human condition. Strange scenes of hybridizing forces, swarming elements, and bleeding overabundance portray Nature unleashed by technology and the human hand and uncontrollable. Rich colors and surrealistic imagery merge to reveal the poetic roots of the works on display. The use of color is intentional but abstract; proportion and space are compositional rather than natural; movement is blurred; objects and people juxtaposed as if by chance in a visual improvisation that unfolds choreographically. At once formally arresting and immeasurably loaded with sensations—the ParkeHarrisons' new body of work has a powerful impact both visually and viscerally.

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from October 10, 2008 to November 08, 2008

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