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Email PageMy Heart Is In My Stomach
January 10, 2008- February 9, 2008
Reception: January 10, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Leemour Pelli
Daneyal Mahmood Gallery
511 W 25th St Leemour Pelli Skeletons (2007) |  Leemour Pelli My Heart Is In My Stomach (2007) |
Pelli works in the diverse media of painting, sculpture, drawings and prints, aiming at exploring fundamental aspects of human experience, both real and imagined.
The work contains figures that are constricted by, and paradoxically perhaps, thriving on their emotional and physical conditions. They are both subjects and objects of the acts of perception, love, and memory. Metaphorically, reality and the self are often x-rayed. They are delved into, layered, and exposed from the inside out, to reveal what is concealed, suppressed, or difficult to discern. As an expression of the internal and the elusive, some of the characters are rendered with external anatomical organs, or marks and imprints. The figures are ruptured, fragmented and disintegrating, suggesting the inner, imperceptible drama of the characters. The figures become more and more skeletal, at times complete skeletons; being a metaphor for the human condition
The work draws inspiration from literature and poetry, such as the writings of Samuel Beckett, and Ted Hughes. Characters and personas that may resemble those in some of their writings, like Murphy and Crow, are re-created and used in a theatrical series of works.
Though the work consists of single figures or couples, it may be said that larger issues concerning the break down or malfunctioning of human relations and humanity itself are invoked. A general failure at connection is evident. Indeed, the work is about fundamental collapse: of contemporary social conventions, perceptions, relationships, and individuals' internal and exterior worlds.
Leemour Pelli lives and works in New York City. She is a graduate of the School of Visual Arts (B.F.A., painting, 1994), Hunter College (Master of Arts degree in Art History, 1989), and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (B.A. in English Literature). She has also studied at the Bezalel Academy of Art in Jerusalem, the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts, in Paris, and at Cornell University. Her other recent solo exhibitions include two solo shows at the Annina Nosei Gallery in New York in 2004 and 2005, and in 2003 at the Art Gallery of the University of Central Florida in Orlando. Pelli’s recent exhibitions also include the Kinz Tillou and Feigen Gallery, and the Paul Rodgers Gallery in New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, Connecticut, PS1 Institute of Contemporary Art, Long Island City, Spaces Contemporary Art Center in Ohio, and the Artcore Gallery in Toronto. Her work has been reviewed in Art News, The New York Times, New York Arts Magazine, Tema Celeste, and The Globe and Mail, among other publications.
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