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Email PageCroak, Drew, Ireland, and Lewitt
November 15, 2007- January 8, 2008
Reception: November 29, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
James Croak, Leonardo Drew, David Ireland, Sol LeWitt
Brenda Taylor Gallery
511 W 25th StMemory and Loss:
Working variously in modes of post-modern, surrealist and minimalist frameworks, the work of the four artists in the current exhibition at The Brenda Taylor Gallery individually address issues of nostalgia, temporality and loss.
A self described, “Surrealist sculptor using conceptual figuration a (his) technique,” James Croak has been creating works using dirt as his signature material since 1984. Victorian windows, cast in dirt, resin and tar make comment on the blurred images from our shared American histories. The window, a symbolic portal into our past, has become literally clouded over by the passage of time.
Leonardo Drew’s monumental wall relief in wood, cotton, nails and rust, titled #23, evokes the great migration of African Americans from the rural south to the urban north beginning with the onset of the Jim Crow laws in the 1890’s. Using a loose grid reminiscent of a city street plan, Drew’s work is at once a comment on the struggles and injustices committed against his people and a bold formalist exercise in scale, medium and composition.
David Ireland is a sculptor and conceptual artist well known for work with non-traditional art materials. In his work, Intentional Spill, an overturned can has poured (now dried) paint into a Domino Sugar crate set on a 4 legged pedestal mount. This simple, yet visually dynamic sculptural statement is inspired both by the artist’s studies in Zen principles as well as post-modern aesthetic thought.
As one of the founders of conceptual and minimalist art, Sol Lewitt (1928 - 2007), is regarded as one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century. Drawing largely from an internal sense of geometry, form and color, LeWitt believed that the idea of his work superseded the art itself. In his untitled gouache on paper, delicate bands of alternating purple and dark grey create an undulating and rhythmic composition.
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