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Email PageThe Sheltering Sky
January 19, 2007- February 10, 2007
Reception: January 19, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Michael Van Den Besselaar, Liset Castillo, Ina Geissler, Grant Miller, Andrew Piedilato, Jonas Pihl, Leigh Tarentino, Stefanie Bühler, Meighan Gale, KK Kozik, Georges LeBAR, Jordon Schranz, Adam Weekley, Eric White
Black & White Gallery
636 W 28th St Liset Castillo Western Civilization (2006) |  Leigh Tarentino Swing (2006) |  Eric White The Truth Yet Again Asserts Itself in Obdurate Reprisal, and in So Doing Belies the Fact That You, No Longer Besieged by Doubt, Have Come to the Conclusion That Maybe Things Aren't Really All That Bad After All! (2006) |
At the core of the exhibition is a discursive process whereby each artist attempts to investigate the everyday life disconnect between the external environment and our thoughts, dreams, attitudes and feelings.
The worlds in works selected for the exhibition with their many confusing aspects and layers of complexity are at once familiar and unnatural, they are real rooms and spaces inflected by a strong imagination that slips into dreamy fantasy.
Michael Van Den Besselaar, Liset Castillo, Ina Geissler, Grant Miller, Andrew Piedilato, Jonas Pihl and Leigh Tarentino transform the content and meaning of physical spaces. They create a shift that is charged both intellectually and emotionally and make us believe that we have seen them many times before and know them very well.
Stefanie Bühler, Meighan Gale, KK Kozik, Georges LeBAR, Jordon Schranz, Adam Weekley and Eric White invite us into a created world in which life is scripted. They conjure up luscious and melancholic experiences that involve us in reflections on things we long for. They open doors into new worlds of dreams, dramas and iconic endings.
The exhibition title The Sheltering Sky appropriates a title of the cult classic book by Paul Bowles, a strange and complex novel from which while one emerges as if from a dream, a little reflection makes it clear that our dreams can so easily become our nightmares.
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