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Email PageNetzer, Sartori, and Kennedy
December 4, 2007- January 5, 2008
Reception: December 6, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Sylvia Netzer, Luisa Sartori, Kharis Kennedy
A.I.R. Gallery
511 W 25th StGallery I: In Hopeful Monsters, Sylvia Netzer incorporates references to scientific discoveries through her choices of forms and techniques. Due to the transformative nature of both science and art, Netzer has had a lifelong interest in exploring where the two disciplines might meet. The exhibition includes nine new ceramic pieces and a monumental brick sculpture. Hopeful Monsters refers to the theory that genetic abnormalities are nature’s way to quick jump evolution rather than a disaster.
Gallery II: In Lines & Weather Luisa Sartori. invents abstract lines and organic shapes, providing the opposite poles which frame our visual experience. In her series of small wood panels, the artwork hints at geographical and natural features that are juxtaposed to textured surfaces. They are created by the action of time and chemical agents taking their natural, often unexpected course on bronze, silver and gold leaves. One may find a suggestive if uneasy coexistence in geographical maps. Like in the process of map-making where physical places are reduced and recreated through the interplay of symbols and colors, the work is a juxtaposition of organic and symbolic elements.
Gallery III: Kharis Kennedy's show Fixed Value explores the subjective versus the objective in art. The series consists of 27 paintings representing a three year exploration into the possibility of creating artworks that exist only to fulfill predetermined, objective, measurable criteria. As constants each painting uses the same subject matter (a flower arrangement and a stuffed dog) and is the same size (17.25" x 23.25"). The three groups each explore one of the key attributes that a physicist would use to describe any object: light, mass or energy. Kennedy devised a method to construct the nine paintings in each group that varies only the value of the attribute being studied, while keeping all remaining attributes of the painting constant. Says Kennedy about the series, "I want to find out what it would feel like to encounter a room filled with the same still life, painted over and over again, varying each time only in order to fulfill different objective criteria. The series addresses the use of subjective terminology to critique artwork and opposes the notion of "artistic value," instead offering empirical value and measurement for each work of art. Kharis Kennedy was recently awarded a 2007-2008 A.I.R. Gallery Fellowship which made the realization of Fixed Value possible.
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