Margaret Lanzetta “Blues for Allah”
Heskin Contemporary
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Heskin Contemporary announces Blues for Allah, an exhibition of recent paintings by Margaret Lanzetta. This is the artist’s first solo show with the gallery.
Blues For Allah borrows its title from the 1975 Grateful Dead album honoring the progressive, democratically inclined King Faisal of Saudi Arabia - also a Grateful Dead fan - who was murdered in that same year. In her paintings, Lanzetta links patterns of untraceable cultural origin into fragmented reflections on nationalist, spiritual and psychedelic quests inherent in the world’s globalized cacophony of cultures and religions. Their supersaturated palette of neon contrasts and utilitarian day-glos pushes the boundaries of taste that are so important to cultural status quo.
Today, as marijuana approaches universal legality, and the Arab World continues to reel on its seismic journey to political, religious and social reform. Lanzetta’s paintings subvert the timeless tropes of architecture, design and decoration to reach a contemporary language verging on simple beauty, yet flirting with the desire and unrest that fuel change.
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Schedule
from October 23, 2014 to December 13, 2014
Opening Reception on 2014-10-23 from 18:00 to 21:00