Email Page You must be logged in to send emails   Email Password Forgot your password? If you don't have a login yet, it's easy and fast to create one. Just click below. Close Window Add To Tour del.icio.us Facebook Digg Print Page

Blubbering

March 23, 2007 - April 21, 2007

Reception: March 23, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Neil Farber

Clementine Gallery

623 W 27th St
Clementine Gallery announces the opening of Blubbering, an exhibition of new work in the Main Gallery by Neil Farber. The show will run from March 23–April 21, 2007. A reception for the public will be held on Friday, February, March 23d, from 6-8 PM.

For Blubbering, Farber presents a series of mixed media paintings on paper. The exhibition's title piece is a large-scale work composed of ten individual sheets of paper and arranged in three framed panels. Wildly chromatic and dense with detail, Blubbering exemplifies the artist's use of pattern and repetition to achieve a chaotic effect. In it, masses of tiny round-headed men pour from the belly of a wrecked quarantine ship into the sea below. These figures, whose many identical forms proliferate throughout Farber's work, are applied in delicate lines of watercolor, acrylic, and ink, and then daubed with thick blots of gesso and matte medium. This process results in a rich three-dimensional surface that allows Farber's character's to blur together into surreal, almost cellular shapes.

Neil Farber has had solo exhibitions in Brussels, Copenhagen, and London, Vancouver, Padova, and Santa Monica. He is a member of the Royal Art Lodge, and was featured in the traveling exhibition "Ask the Dust", in 2004. Blubbering will be his fourth solo exhibition at Clementine.

Art Reviews of Blubbering

New York Times April 6, 2007

Bridget L. Goodbody

"The show’s pièce de résistance is a contemporary update of Hieronymus Bosch’s painting “Ship of Fools.” Bosch portrayed the world as falling apart amid human debauchery; Mr. Farber shows a group of men going down in a sinking ship, drowned by the weight of their own neurosis (the exact nature of which is written in tiny script across the sky). Hell, it seems, is not somewhere else, but in the reality you create for yourself...."

Books and DVDs related to artists in this show

Location   Gallery Clementine Gallery Address 623 W 27th St New York (Chelsea) NY, 10001 United States Phone 212-243-5937 Fax 212-243-3927 Hours Tue-Sat 11-6

© 2005-2008 chelseaartgalleries.com The information on this page is provided "as is", and might be incorrect, incomplete and/or out of date. The site owner makes no representation as to the accuracy of the information or its suitability for any purpose. The owner disclaims any liability for errors that may be contained therein. sitemap