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May 15, 2008- June 7, 2008
Reception: May 15, 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Marcy Brafman
532 Gallery
532 W 25th St532 Gallery is presenting the paintings of Marcy Brafman at their second floor gallery space at 532 W.25th Street from May 15 through June 7, 2008. The opening reception will be held on Thursday May 15 from 6-9pm.
Marcy Brafman’s paintings deal with the dark and light of the cultural landscape and the nature of character. They reflect on the demons and deities of the memory as seen on our devices, online, on television, billboards, boxtops, catechisms, illustrated classic comic books, masterpieces in the Frick, old paperback covers, graffiti and signage on moving vehicles and packaging detritus of every shape and kind. Concern with brand identity as a genuine spiritual state plays a strong role in the work, an examination of painting as a mirror to internal and external states, individual and social intentions. Each painting represents a logo poem, a distillation of an array of ideas into a simple painted statement. Each one plays a character in a private cast alphabet.
These paint driven works portray good and evil, ascension, escape, truth, myth, judgment, consequence and destiny. One Shot oil enamel and spray paint form these works. Glossy in their toxicity, pummeled into image, their root meaning and references allow the viewer access to the idiom of old time sign painters and street artists made new in a digital age.
In works such as “Truth or Consequences”, “Astigmatic Mermaid”,“Salt Rain Girl”, “baby Toots”, “l’il Chef”, “l’il Red Devil”, I Found it!”, “Flying Kewpie”, “Mobil Pegasus”,”Augie Doggie”, “Neon Diamond”, “b+w Scotties,” “Chief Pontiac”, and “the mermaid who escaped off a coffee cup,” there are dialogues of color story + motion in each singular frame. Ms. Brafman’s work has been featured in Vellum magazine and Chelsea Now.
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