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Eveleth 2006

April 28, 2006- May 26, 2006

Reception: April 27, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Emily Eveleth

Danese

535 W 24th St

In her new paintings and drawings, Emily Eveleth continues to explore the expressive potential of her signature image, the ordinary and ubiquitous jelly doughnut. In the process, she eliminates the boundaries between still life, landscape and portraiture and invests her subject with unexpected presence and identity – from monumentality to pathos, vulnerability, sensuality and humor. Eveleth’s mastery of the techniques of classic painting and drawing invites a broad range of art historical associations. She has studied the formal principles of the Renaissance and is inspired by Baroque art, particularly the dramatic light of Caravaggio and Rembrandt. The implied transformation of modeled dough into flesh also recalls the idealized eroticism of Rubens. In its entirety, Eveleth’s work conveys a profound regard for the act of painting, disciplined by a keen and observant eye.

In an essay from the catalogue accompanying the exhibition, Raphaela Platow observes: Eveleth explores the doughnut’s capacity to represent diverse psychological states, emotions, and moods. ‘I push the subject of the paintings away from the literalness of the object and towards other meanings,’ the artist states. Platow continues: While posture as a psychological device has played a significant role in Eveleth’s doughnut paintings to date, her latest works take an audacious step in a new direction. They are large in format and sometimes, as in ‘Truce,’ expand horizontally in a panoramic manner. Doughnuts are piled on top of each other like massive boulders or bodies, their tumbling movement arrested…seemingly endless sprawling or built-up arrangements with so little space surrounding them that we directly confront their monumental materiality.

Emily Eveleth was born in Connecticut in 1960. She received an undergraduate degree from Smith College and pursued graduate studies at the Massachusetts College of Art. Her work is included in museum, corporate and private collections. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Award for Painting, and a French Government Grant for the Artist-in-Residency Program in Rochefort-en-Terre.

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Location   Gallery Danese Address 535 W 24th St, 6th Fl New York (Chelsea) NY, 10011 United States Phone 212-223-2227 Fax 212-605-1016 Hours Tue-Sat 10-6 Nearby: All 5 galleries at 535 W 24th St

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