Maya Bloch "hello stranger"
Thierry Goldberg
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Thierry Goldberg Projects presents "Hello Stranger", new work by MAYA BLOCH. Showing figures that veer towards abstraction, the paintings convey an ongoing drama between order and disintegration, clarity and confusion. Hovering sublimely on the canvas, the haunting revenants seem to insist alternately on their irrevocable strangeness and their irrepressible palpability, leaving the viewer both excluded and captivated.
On the verge of absconding into a total disarray of nebulous swashes and cloudy, coagulating hues, the characters in Bloch's paintings, while flirting with abstraction, nevertheless remain figurative. It is largely, though not exclusively, the penetrating eyes (bringing to mind the heads of Edvard Munch) that tend to pin the figures into place, reinforcing their concreteness and bodily presence. In Untitled ("Inner Appearances"), it is the dark, unflinching gazes that implacably haunt the picture, acting as a stay against confusion for the surrounding features. Additionally, in this painting, as in Untitled ("Three Figures"), a backdrop of black striations imprisons the image, organizing the bodies in space. Unsure of whether the direct address of the figures' gazes is more solidly confrontational or elusively impenetrable, viewers find themselves simultaneously unsettled and allured by such unsure apparitions.
[Image: Maya Bloch "Untitled" acrylic on canvas, 63x51 in].
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from February 23, 2011 to April 03, 2011
Opening Reception on 2011-02-27 from 17:00 to 19:00