Mark Grotjahn Exhibition
Anton Kern Gallery
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Mark Grotjahnʼs third solo show at Anton Kern Gallery is comprised of nine large-scale Face paintings. In an apparent departure from the monochrome Butterfly paintings of his 2007 gallery show, the new works are based on the simple geometric structure of eyes, nose, and mouth. The Face paintings are polychrome, made up of innumerable ropy lines of color, and built-up in relief-like and tactile layers of thick, lively paint. The motif of the face, however, has been a constant, although often invisible, presence in Grotjahnʼs work, not only as a model for symmetry, but also as an underlying initial gesture of a face brushed onto the canvas before becoming obscured by the subsequent painting process.
[Image: Mark Grotjahn "Untitled (S 1 Full Frontal Face 41.25)" (2010) Oil on cardboard mounted on linen 101 1/2 x 72 1/4 in.]
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Schedule
from May 05, 2011 to June 25, 2011
Opening Reception on 2011-05-05 from 18:00 to 20:00