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Jansson Stegner 2007

November 15, 2007 - December 22, 2007

Reception: November 15, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Jansson Stegner

Bellwether

134 10th Ave
Please join us for JANSSON STEGNER’S opening at Bellwether on Thursday, November 15th from 6-8 pm. The exhibition will be on view from November 15th-December 22nd, 2007.

Tenderness and the visual trappings of our social indicators of power are combined in Jansson Stegner’s oil paintings of police officers. In these portraits, the artist veers away from the familiar depictions of cops as big burly strikebreakers or sadists in mirrored sunglasses. Instead, they are primarily women of arresting beauty, whose quiet and contemplative nature challenges the idea that authority must assert itself in violent and oppressive ways.

With languid bodies bent into sculptural forms and limbs portrayed with Mannerist exaggeration, Stegner depicts a physical and emotional awkwardness in his subjects that draws the viewer into their psychological space. Similarly, the minimal surroundings in which the figures are placed—whether natural or darkened voids—provide a framework for concentrating attention on his subjects’ introspection. These stark settings and concentration on the emotional and mental state of the central figure draw from Stegner’s interest in Spanish painters such as El Greco, Zurbarán, and Goya as well as the expressive portraits of Otto Dix and Christian Schad. Stegner’s cops have been displaced from the urban environment and relocated into private, contemplative worlds that are pastoral, monastic and removed.

This is Jansson Stegner’s first solo exhibition at Bellwether and his second in New York. Stegner has been included in group exhibitions in Berlin, Copenhagen, and Munich and his work will be included in The Saatchi Gallery’s forthcoming exhibition, “The Triumph of Painting: Unreal”. Stegner was awarded a 2006 Fellowship from the New York Foundation from the Arts.

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Location   Gallery Bellwether Address 134 10th Ave New York (Chelsea) NY, 10011 United States Phone 212-929-5959 Hours Tue-Sat 11-6

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