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June 29, 2006- July 31, 2006
Reception: June 29, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Kim McCarty, Koji Shimizu, Mia Enell, So- Bin Park, Vicky Usle
Elga Wimmer PCC
526 W 26th StKoji Shimizu
Shimizu´s work is direct, playful and immediate. In his drawings, experimental compositions and vivid installations, he uses elements and subjects from his personal life. A cat owner and observant artist, he has examined his pet's explosive behavior, questioning whether it really is Shimizu who sets the rules or, in fact, the complete opposite. The work is an imaginative transcription of the social interaction between these two "cohabitants."
Mia Enell
With a dark sense of humor and delicate lines of drawing, Swedish artist Mia Enell plays with personal and psychological issues. Growing up between Sweden and Belgium, she was influenced by both Nordic painting and Belgian art of the '70s. The naive yet mystical northern style, in constant tension with smart commentaries based on her everyday life, reveals a broad spectrum of seriousness and acquired knowledge that lies between the lines, metaphorically and figuratively speaking.
Kim McCarty
Referencing the ambivalence of adolescence, California-based artist Kim McCarty's figurative watercolors evoke the most uncertain phase of vulnerable youth. The teenage mind's struggle between reality, dreams, fantasies and anxieties is reflected in the sitter's gaze. The bright yet transparent watercolors on white background are a sensuous medium that perfectly reflects the mood of Kim McCarty's portraits.
Vicky Usle
Vicky Usle's drawings suggest a diary in images: polkadots on a dress worn on a sunny day in the Spanish countryside, two heads of a man and woman close together, as if whispering to each other, a young seductive woman looking inquisitively at the viewer. Vicky Usle, living between two cultures (American and Spanish) and between city and nature, uses the medium of drawing to express her observations, dreams and reflections.
So-Bin Park
The image of the dragon appears frequently in Chinese paintings, and So-Bin Park, of Taiwanese descent, uses it to express the playful and erotic, as well as the dangerous and the forbidden. The young women in her paintings are seductively draped in a dragon's tail or appear to be attacked by some fierce, ominous-looking beast. Black ink on paper enhances the strong, calligraphic, painterly presence of the figures. So-Bin Park shows in New York for the first time.
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